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Police and protesters clash on Bolivar Square in the Colombian capital Bogota on the eighth day of anti-government protests that have left at least 24 people dead and more than 800 others injured. IMAGES TO FOLLOW VIDI99D7YA_EN
Police and protesters clash outside the National Capitol building in the Colombian capital Bogota on the eighth day of anti-government protests that have left at least 24 people dead and more than 800 others injured. IMAGES
Cartagena, Sep 12 (EFE).- Violent demonstrations against police brutality in Colombia mutated into cultural interventions by citizens in the streets and in some of the police facilities that were set on fire in the riots of recent days.After meeting with Colombian President Iván Duque on Saturday, Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said the protests and acts of vandalism of recent days, which has left at least 13 people dead in Bogotá and the neighboring town of Soacha, were infiltrated by anarchists and groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN). (Camera: RICARDO MALDONADO ROZO)FOOTAGE SHOWS PEACEFUL PROTESTING THROUGH CULTURE IN CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA. SOUNDBITES: MAYOR WILLIAM DAU OF CARTAGENA (IN SPANISH): My compromise is with the people. I come to show my solidarity to them because all human rights must be respected, especially the primary right out of all the rights which is the right to life.
Demonstrators clash with police on a main road in Quito on the ninth day of Indigenous-led fuel price protests. The head of Ecuador's armed forces has denounced as a "grave threat" to democracy the wave of protests that have triggered several regional states of emergency and a curfew in the capital Quito. IMAGES
Tributes have been paid to Chilean journalist, Francisca Sandoval, who was shot in the head while covering a Workers' Day march on May 1.