Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada, Ana Maldonado, Zoe PC 11 Apr 2020 Colombia’s Government From a "Hug-a-thon" organized during the "Uniting people for peace" festival in March 2018 where 2,000 people from movements and organizations in Colombia and Venezuela gathered to celebrate the unity of the people and reject efforts by the elites to divi Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw two policies. First, the people wanted the right-wing government of Duque to advance the 2016 peace accords between the government and the left-wing FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). These accords, negotiated in good faith, would have ended a war that has lasted for six decades; 70 percent of Colombian society has been born during this war.

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