Police prepared with hand grenades, guns, tear gas, and billy clubs at the Anti-Free Trade march on February 10, 2005
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Police tank in the streets with thousands of peaceful marchers.
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The Human Rights organization, \"the Permanent Assembly for Peace in Civil Society\" marches with dozens of other groups through the streets in peaceful protest of the Free Trade Agreement.
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February 10, 2005 marks the intercontinental round table meeting in Cartagena to discuss the conditions of a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia. The Bogota protest is in coordination with a nation-wide protest this day.
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Indigenous campesinos traveled from the northern Caribbean coast (Uraba) to participate in the march against the Free Trade agreement.
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The Governmental adult education institute that offers job skills training to low income adults (SENA), is suffering major budget cuts under President Uribe\'s administration.
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Venezuela is currently a hot topic in the Colombian news, as a Colombian FARC leader was arrested and detained in Venezuela, in violation of international law, under orders from Uribe.
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\"The Re-election of Uribe will also fail\", according to the Communist Party of Colombia (Maoist). Uribe wants to change the Constitution to allow for a second consecutive term for president.
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\"No: FTAA, war, fascism, injustice, unemployment, re-election, Plan Colombia, Anti-Terrorism Statute\". This banner is held by a Bogota workers union.
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