Riot police sent to National University in Bogota

[Judi Lynn]

Riot police sent to National University in Bogota
Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:27
Jim Glade

Anti-riot police were dispatched Thursday to break up protests in a Bogota university that are said to have been provoked by guerrillas embedded within the student protest groups.

The Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squadron of the police confronted protesters outside of the National University in the capital city, and were met with resistance, including home made bombs, one of which managed to injure a police officer.

RCN Radio reported Thursday morning that during a student protest , 30 suspected guerrilla members, known in the Colombian media as "hoods," embedded themselves within student protest groups and stormed the university campus wearing Che Guevara t-shirts. They subsequently began destroying surveillance cameras, windows and doors on the property.

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Tensions have been high in public universities across the country since March after President Juan Manuel Santos proposed a new education reform that allows for private organizations to fund public universities.

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