Marvel Opara, who is partially sighted, attends a visually impaired tennis training session in London, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Unions members on Wednesday took to the streets in Colombia’s major cities. In the capital, Bogota, some protesters blocked public bus lanes, impeding the movement of thousands of people, according to the mayor’s office.“I’m mobilizing because I feel that my rights have been violated,” Yeimy Cante Toro, a member of the union of workers from non-governmental organizations, said as she demonstrated in Bogota.
A day earlier, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said Petro will issue a decree on June 1 to authorize the referendum if lawmakers fail to vote on it again.A demonstrator holds a sign reading in Spanish “Yes to the referendum” during a strike called by pro-government labor unions in support of reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)A demonstrator holds a sign reading in Spanish “Yes to the referendum” during a strike called by pro-government labor unions in support of reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
date back to the start of his term in 2022, but they have heightened as he seeks to consolidate his legacy ahead of next year’s legislative and presidential elections. Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president, is eligible for reelection.“Congress gave the government a lifeline at a moment of great weakness by rejecting the labor reform,” said Mauricio Velásquez, a political science professor at the University of Los Andes. “It gave (Petro) the opportunity to repeat the strategy of using legislative failure as a way to stir up the political arena.”
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