Colombia’s President Ivan Duque is facing a popular uprising after a tax reform proposal caused indignation, which police brutality turned into fury.
The proposal of Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla was almost immediately rejected by the National Strike Committee after its arrival in Congress in early April.
Duque believed that giving the tax reform a pretty name, the “Sustainable Solidarity Law,” would get it passed through Congress, but learned he couldn’t be more wrong.
Less than a year before elections, no political party other than Duque’s far-right Democratic Center supported the tax reform that would increase the tax burden on the middle class.
Indigenous organizations from southwest Colombia additionally said they joined the initiative to protest increased tolls on public roads.
Discontent grew as Duque tried using backdoors to get his tax reform through Congress while failing to address the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on healthcare, the economy and public security.
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