In Colombia's protests, pandemic pressures collide with an existential reckoning for police
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Between March 2020 and April 2021, Colombian police issued 2.5 million fines for breaking quarantine orders (about 6,400 per day) -- roughly equivalent to the number of Covid-19 cases reported in Colombia over that period.
Proposed tax reforms initially sparked the protests, but security forces' response also awakened deep mistrust toward them, which in turn ignited a national, still unarticulated movement.More Related News
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