I will use electronic media and participatory mechanisms... so that we can all build a meaningful path of reform." The protests come amid social upheaval across South America, as a wave of unrest over the past two months has battered governments in Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador. Hundreds of demonstrators protested in cities across the country earlier in the day, following protests in the western Valle del Cauca department on Thursday that Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo told reporters had left three dead. Elsewhere, three police officers were killed and seven other people injured after an attack on a police station in southwestern Colombia on Friday, a local official told AFP. But city secretary Jaime Asprilla attributed the attack to armed groups in the area, and not to the protests against Duque.

Source: Bangkok Post November 23, 2019 06:56 UTC