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International organizations as well as high-profile celebrities are calling attention to the situation in Colombia, where protests over a planned pandemic-related tax hike have left at least 19 dead and hundreds injured.
"We need help. Colombia needs help, SOS,"the Latin music star J Balvin, who is Colombian, posted on Instagram, also writing in Spanish that there's "no control over the situation."
"It's unacceptable that a mother loses her only son because of brutality and that another 18 people's lives were yanked away in a peaceful protest," the pop star Shakira, who is also Colombian, posted.
In a video gone viral, a mother screams as she pulls the sheet off a dead body, only to discover the body is that of her son.