The National Unemployment Committee and the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) announced a call for a new strike day in Colombia scheduled for March 3.
(‘Exporters are already recovering after the strike’).
One of the reasons that motivates these mobilizations is the situation of high prices, after annualized inflation reached 6.94 percent according to the Dane.
According to Francisco Maltés, president of the CUT, these hikes are sponsored by the government, which has authorized increases of more than 10 percent in public services and nearly 11 percent in gasoline.
They will also protest “systematic threats, blackmail, stigmatization and murder of social leaders.”
(Due to unemployment, the national economy fell back in 9 months, said Dane).
Likewise, Maltés mentioned as other acts of protest the increase in the dollar that affects the price of imported products.
“Given these facts, the CUT and the National Unemployment Committee have agreed to convene the Nation for a great protest against the famine and its responsible, President Duque, on March 3. Peaceful mobilizations in all the capitals of the country”, iMaltese indicated on his Twitter account.
⚠️ “The only person responsible for inflation is the government of @IvanDuque, high production costs and high interest rates, among others. We invite Colombians to mobilize peacefully this March 3 throughout the country.” @maltescut1
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Similarly, the organizers invited from April 28 to peaceful mobilizations to remember the first anniversary of the social outbreak.
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