But many say that at the heart of the outpouring is a deeper frustration with the pace of change. “The last government tried to end the war and it didn’t work,” said Eliana Garzón, 31, whose brother-in-law, Javier Ordóñez, was the man killed by police. “His death was the perfect excuse to head to the streets.”The attacks in the countryside are widely considered to be an ugly byproduct of the peace deal. But as the FARC pulled out of vast swaths of the country, other groups — some old, some new — moved in. And in the last month the pace of the killings has accelerated, with a massacre taking place on average every two days, according to the human rights group Indepaz, which tracks the killings.

Source: International New York Times September 13, 2020 18:33 UTC