arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Carlos Geovanny Blanco Leguzamo was studying medicine at Colombia National University.
On Wednesday he was shot dead during an anti-war protest in Bogota. A group of students were protesting the bombings in Afganistan when police responded to the demo with violence. A group of students were confronting police forces who had invaded university campus when Carlos was shot at around noon. Police commander denies police are responsible for the shooting but a number of witnesses confirm the shot came from behind police lines.

Around midday today, November 7, 2001, the police shot to death medical student Carlos G. Blanco; in the middle of confrontations that took place at the Universidad Nacional in Bogota, Colombia. During the rest of the afternoon, the police sustained the same force against the gates of the university, wounding and detaining other students and bystanders in the area. The official statement by the police claims that the student collapsed on university grounds and that the police had not entered. They also asserted in other sources that the death of the student was caused by the handling of explosives. The police were in the university at the moment Carlos was hit, and the shooter very certainly could have fired from outside since a shot would have no problem crossing the bars and mesh that encircles the campus. The official explanation is a typical cover-up on the part of the assassin's superiors and, of course, of the journalists from various news media that presented the story in that manner. The medical student comrade fell during a protest against various government measures with the protest timed to take advantage of the journalistic display happening near the campus for the World Cup futbol elimination game. The criminality and recklessness of police superiors against people who found themselves in the university could generate in the next days and months judicial incidents or acts of repression against members of the university community, in the middle of a growing attack in various cities in Colombia against members of workers unions and professors and, from there, students. There will be protest marches tomorrow, and a tally of the detained and possible disappeared that today's march left. We will do whatever possible to avoid a closure of the university that would cinch the cloak of impugnity that blooms over this case.
C.U.

Police occupied the campus for the whole afternoon. By night a lot of students were camping in the university and preparing protests for Thursday.
The University will be closed today and tomorrow.
Reports of this have yet to appear in Corporate media anywhere.