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A 🧵to contextualise what's happening in Cali, the epicenter of Colombia's national strike, based on a long ethnographic engagement with the young people behind the protests, police officers and local officials that @LinaBuchely and I have been conducting since 2016. 1/ Image
Some background to the current strike first. The huge mobilisations over the past 12 days are a continuation of the protests that took place in Nov. 2019 (#21N) against the current Duque government, its attacks on the peace accords and the country's economic situation. 2/ Image
The 2019 protests were the largest & most coordinated mobilisations in Colombia's history. People from across the spectrum called for economic reform, and for an end to the assassination of peace leaders & to the ESMAD, the country's infamous anti-riot police. 3/ Image
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¿Saben lo que es un cartucho de impacto dirigido con munición cinética? Parece que fue con lo que impactaron a #DilanCruz, no una recalzada, no un arma no convencional, peor aun, un arma que el #ESMAD usa aparentemente sin cumplir su propio reglamento

Adivinen, va hilo...
Esa bolsa 'de tela' llena de pepitas de metal parece ser la que se incrustó en el cráneo de #DilanCruz, esa bolsa en realidad es el contenido de los cartuchos de impacto dirigido calibre 12 (de escopeta) o armas, ojo, 'Menos letales'
La bolsa (o Bean bag) está hecha con el mismo material de los chalecos antibalas y es solo una de las opciones 'menos letales', las hay también con varios proyectiles de goma e incluso con choques eléctricos, gas pimienta o pirotecnia
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