Colombia's Indigenous Minga descend on Bogotá for May Day Protests | The City Paper Bogotá

Councilman Juan Baena pointed out that the government uses the arrival of Minga to support the May 1 and 2 marches. The presence of indigenous Minga at the National University of Colombia continues to generate tensions as communities demand concrete responses from the national government to the commitments that, they claim, remain unfulfilled. Councilman Juan Baena said the government would be using the arrival of Minga politically. “Petro instr…

Colombia's Indigenous Minga descend on Bogotá for May Day Protests | The City Paper Bogotá

More than 11,000 members of Colombia’s Indigenous communities have arrived in the capital ahead of International Workers’ Day demonstrations on Wednesday, in a show of support for President Gustavo Petro’s stalled reform agenda. Officials expect up to 5,000 more participants in the coming days. The Indigenous collective, known as the minga, began arriving on Sunday in brightly painted rural buses – known locally as chivas – from the southern dep…

The indigenous Minga who has been in Bogotá since Sunday and plans to stay for the May 1 marches, arrived this afternoon at the headquarters of the Ministry of Education and the National Land Agency (ANT).In both entities they claim to have outstanding issues and that they are part of a statement of 8 demands that they make to the government this week. With MinEducación, their own educational system.They demand a special decree to shape the indi…

Starting Sunday and continuing throughout the week, the indigenous minga (protest movement) will continue to arrive to participate in the demonstrations called by the government for May 1st. Although the referendum questions related to labor reform will not apply to most members of indigenous communities, their closeness to the Petro administration is significant. So far in 2025, the government has given more than 300 billion pesos to the Cauca …