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Bogota, Feb 4 (EFE).- They were killed by police or for defending a cause they believed in, and now their faces, painted in vivid colors on the columns of a bridge in Bogota, occupy a place in Colombia's first open-air memory museum.Cars whiz on by on Boyaca Avenue as several street artists, perched on platforms, put the finishing touches on almost fifty portraits that pay tribute to social leaders that were killed in the country as well as victims of police violence. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: COLOMBIA ARTISTS PAINT GRAFFITIS UNDER THE BRIDGE IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, TO HONOR VICTIMS OF ARMED CONFLICTS AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE COUNTRY.SOUND BITE: GUSTAVO TREJOS, A DIRECTOR OF TRÍPIDO FOUNDATION (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: We'd like to remind Colombia that the capital punishment in this country does not exist and that every lives matter, whether you're a police officer, a soldier, a former guerilla or a civilian. No one has the right to die and we need to protect every lives.
Port-au-Prince, Feb 16 (EFE).- The kidnapping of an elderly man in the Delmas 19 neighborhood in Haiti's capital led to a spontaneous protest on Tuesday by the victim's neighbors, which ended with the dispersion of some 150 people by the Haitian police using tear gas.The victim of the kidnapping is 74-year-old Vienne Dwane, a shopkeeper who residents see as a father figure.According to testimonies, he was taken away by individuals dressed in police uniforms on Monday afternoon. (Camera: MARIA MONTECELOS). SHOT LIST: AN ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST ON FEBRUARY 16, 2021, IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI.
According to the UN, in 2019 alone, more than 7,740 children, some as young as six, were recruited and used as soldiers around the world.
The Covid-19 pandemic cast a long pall over 2020 but it also saw President Donald Trump beaten by Joe Biden in a tumultuous US election and the Black Lives Matter movement shake the world.
Protests in Bogota marking a year since 2019's national strike against Ivan Duque's government end with riots around a university site.
Quatre patients atteints du Covid-19, hospitalisés en réanimation sur l'île de la Réunion, sont évacués vers un aéroport de la région parisienne par vol sanitaire. Une opération sans précédent par la durée du vol, 11 heures, et le nombre de malades transportés.
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