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Colombia Crisis Grows
amid Violence
Bogota - A week
after decreeing a social
emergency, due to the
closing and bankruptcy
of several illegal
financial companies, the
situation remains
complicated in several
Colombian regions.
On Sunday, the Financial
Superintendent's Office
announced the closing of
the Costa Caribe
business, which appeared
as promoter of a large
hotel project and other
five firms linked to it.
The institution
predicted that this week
will continue the
closings of more
important businesses,
which will leave around
200,000 people without
savings after having
invested in these
companies.
Meanwhile, protests by
those who want their
money back or those who
ask the government to
rectify are increasing
all over the country.
That is the case of
almost 200,000 clients
of DMG, considered the
biggest company, and the
main shareholder of
which David Murcia was
imprisoned in Panama and
extradited to La Picota
prison in this capital.
This Sunday hundreds of
people gathered in front
of that prison to ask
for the release of
Murcia and marched to
Plaza Bolivar with the
same goal.
In Honda municipality,
Tolima state, a curfew
was ordered to try to
control a series of
disturbances that
started Saturday
evening.
A report from that city
said that around 25,000
people started to loot a
supermarket that had
been closed by the
police, because of its
ties with DMG.
Mayor Carlos Arce
Camacho denounced that
almost 10,000 people
participated in the
looting of dozens of
businesses.
Many have confirmed that
the contradictory
situation that the
country is going through
is the result of the
poverty suffered by more
than half the Colombian
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