Thursday, May 01, 2008

Riot


Thursday 1 May 2008

Today is Labor Day in Colombia, a national holiday. The students decided to take advantage of this, and have a great big rock-throwing protest! Ryan and I saw the whole thing (and very nearly got caught up in it), from gathering, to shouting, to throwing rocks and destroying public property, to tanks coming in and hosing everyone down and tear-gassing them. (Don't worry, we were well out of the way by then.) We never quite figured out the goal of the protesters, but it was clear they were unhappy with Uribe, the president.

This photo is actually courtesy of Ryan.

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