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Roughly half a million Colombians took to the streets of the nation’s main cities on Sunday in what isWhile Petro himself has publicly downplayed Sunday’s attendance numbers, claiming that only some 250,000 participated nationwide, local security authorities havethat roughly 350,000 citizens flocked to the streets of the city of Medellín alone, and an additional 180,000 participated in the capital city of Bogotá.
Members of the Colombian opposition and civil society have held frequent, near-monthly peaceful protests against Petro and his far-left government. Last month, an estimated 50,000 Colombian citizensPetro responded to Sunday’s peaceful events with a lengthy social media post in which he claimed that the purpose of the peaceful protests is to allegedly “overthrow” his government in a “soft coup” plot against him.
Petro asserted that the “popular forces must respond” to Sunday’s peaceful protests on May 1 during the communist “May Day” holiday, summoning his sympathizers to march on that day in support of his leftist government.
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