Between support for Petro and union autonomy: Fecode starts a strike against the Government

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A strike by the Colombian Federation of Educators (Fecode) against the Government of Gustavo Petro, at first glance, seems an unlikely situation. The official teachers union, the largest in the country, was one of the pillars of the coming to power of the first left-wing president in decades. Later, with Petro in Casa de Nariño, most of its leaders avoided confronting the Government, even when there were serious problems such as failures in the …