Colombia: At Least 19 Dead and More Than 800 Injured in Protests Against Tax Reform

COLOMBIA (BBC News) — Colombia’s ombudsman said at least 19 people had died during a week of unrest over proposed tax reforms.
The ombudsman’s office had at first put the number of those killed since the protests started at 17, but later revised that number upwards to 19. But that was before the fresh clashes which happened overnight in Cali, Colombia’s third largest city.
When the protests started on 28 April, they were mainly in opposition to a now shelved tax reform.
The government argued that the reform was key to mitigating Colombia’s economic crisis. Its gross domestic product (GDP) dropped by 6.8% last year, the deepest crash in half a century, and the coronavirus pandemic has further driven up its unemployment rate.

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COLOMBIA (BBC Mundo) — Más de cinco días de protestas contra la reforma fiscal en Colombia dejaron al menos 19 muertos y más de 800 heridos, según informó la Defensoría del Pueblo.
Son las primeras cifras oficiales tras días de reportes de fallecidos durante las protestas por una reforma fiscal que finalmente el presidente Iván Duque pidió retirar.
La Defensoría del Pueblo dijo que desde el 28 de abril 18 civiles y un policía murieron en las protestas en varias ciudades del país.
Además, hubo 846 heridos, incluidos 306 civiles.