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😊 Oh I love this country.
Two years ago I watched from my balcony as protestors filled the highway, setting up strategic fire barriers (you read that right!) and using trucks to stall traffic during protests centered mainly around a mid-pandemic tax policy that would have gutted low- and mid-income households to shore up pension funds via international investment rankings. Esmad tore out in the other direction. Skirmishes ensued. LOTS of tear gas. Good times. Memorial strike tomorrow! #Colombia
@MLClark yikes. Zow. Whoa.
To be clear, my very first month in Colombia, while in Bogotá, activist groups stormed a building across the street and set up shop on the roof. The military surrounded & locked down our block for the rest of the day. Tear gas had us take our students to the third floor, where we steered clear of windows because the kids across the street were shooting at them.
So I've known what it means to live in Colombia from the start! 🙃 Lovely weather--& active political discourse in ever so many forms.