ESCALATING COLOMBIA VIOLENCE KILLS 26

BUCARAMANGA: Kevin Anthony Agudelo wanted to live in a country where corruption was not part of everyday life. That dream motivated the electrician to join thousands of Colombians in a series of demonstrations against the government since last week. He never returned home from his third protest. He was the 26th fatality in the nearly two-week protests in the country. Sobbing beside her 22-year-old son’s coffin at a funeral home, Ángela Jiménez blamed Agudelo’s shooting death on the same government he had hoped to change.