I know that I just did an essay about South Americans elections, but this is different and deserves it's own essay.
The consistently right-wing nation of Colombia (that I've heard referred to as "America's Israel in South America") is suffering from a worker's revolt that continues to spread and pick up intensity.

Opposition to a planned tax reform — which strike organizers said would unfairly target the middle and working classes in what is one of Latin America’s most unequal countries — was the central issue, particularly in the context of the global pandemic, which has pushed an estimated five million Colombians out of work. Calls to repeal the tax reform were aligned with longer-running demands around growing poverty levels, addressing the human rights crisis affecting much of the country, and properly advancing the implementation of the 2016 peace agreement.

Since the national strike movement was launched in November 2019, protesters have become accustomed to the police crackdowns of President Iván Duque’s right-wing administration. Yet, even by recent standards, the spread and duration of the violence unleashed since April 28 has been extreme. For over three weeks of daily protests across Colombia, Colombian security forces — especially the notorious riot police unit, the Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squadron (ESMAD) — have committed massive human rights violations as Duque’s government seeks to suppress anger toward his government.

By May 18, Colombian human rights organizations had registered security forces’ apparent responsibility for more than 2,300 acts of violence, 43 killings (including four minors), 18 sexual assaults, and 30 cases of eye injuries. Men in plain clothes have been filmed firing at protesters as uniformed police officers stand alongside them and do nothing, particularly alarming given Colombia’s long history of state collusion with paramilitary terror.
...Although Duque repealed the tax reform after five days of intense unrest, it was far too late. His government had spilled too much blood.

In the midst of the killings and brutal violence being carried out by state agents, far from calling for the abuses to come to an end, government officials repeatedly issued stigmatizing statements against the protesters. On May 3, defense minister Diego Molano said, “Colombia faces the terrorist threat of criminal organizations,” while vice president Martha Ramírez implied that Indigenous organizations were funded by illegal drug money.

The use of smears to delegitimize popular movements is by no means a new tactic — trade unionists and activists have long been labelled “guerrillas” or “terrorists.” During the recent weeks, however, and in the context of a peace agreement now signed with the country’s largest and oldest guerrilla organization, the attempts to stigmatize appear to have largely strengthened the resolve of the protesters.

To be fair, there is another side. Specifically, the side of wealthy people.

Let me point out again: Billionaires
I'm an editor overseeing Forbes' coverage of the world's wealthiest

So what are the gems from this point of view?

Duque said. But he appeared to indicate that the police actions may have been justified, in his view, saying that the 14 cases of deaths or beatings being investigated by the attorney general’s office “presumptively are associated with levels of confrontation in violent scenes where there was vandalism.”

Oh, well. Break a window - get beaten to death by cops.
That seems fair.
After all, a pane of glass is worth infinitely more than the life of a poor person.

AP is also doing the "both sides are guilty" bullsh*t.

Protesters and police in Cali have accused each other of using live ammunition during clashes that still occur most nights in in poor neighborhoods, which are also home to gangs.

This is a textbook example of biased reporting.
Hmmm. I wonder why you haven't heard about these protests and general strike on MSNBC?