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Four constabulary officers successful Colombia's superior were injured connected Friday (October 18, 2025) aft protesters extracurricular the U.S. embassy fired arrows and explosives during a rally against President Donald Trump's policies, officials said.
"Delinquents, immoderate of whom were hooded, attacked the embassy with incendiary devices, explosives and arrows," said Bogota Mayor Carlos Fernando Galan. "Four constabulary officers were wounded successful the face, legs and arms."
The Defence Ministry shared images depicting a chaotic country extracurricular the embassy, with 1 showing an serviceman with an arrow lodged successful his arm.
The protestation group, which called themselves "Congreso de los Pueblos" (People's Congress), staged the lawsuit extracurricular the embassy to denounce the right-wing docket of Trump, a spokesperson for the group, Jimmy Moreno, told AFP.
"We are demonstrating for our sovereignty, nary much interference from the United States, against everything the United States has been progressive successful the genocide of Palestinians, its interference successful Latin America, and the threats it has been making successful the Caribbean... against the Venezuelan Bolivar model," Mr. Moreno said.
The radical began staging protests connected Monday (October 13) successful assorted locations passim Bogota, but they did not crook convulsive until Friday (October 17).
Colombia's leftist President Gustavo Petro, who has recovered himself astatine likelihood with Trump astatine assorted points this year, said successful a station connected the societal web X that helium "ordered maximum caution with the U.S. embassy successful Bogota."
"A much extremist radical has attacked the constabulary guarding the embassy, with respective young radical injured with arrows," helium added.
The protestation radical expressed statement with Mr. Petro successful a bulletin but called connected the authorities to physique "an anti-imperialist front."
