 For more videos on People's Struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. My name is Zoe and this is Around the World in 8 Minutes where we bring you stories of struggle and resistance of common people united in the rejection of this unjust system. For our first story, we take you to Colombia, where social movements and human rights organizations are denouncing the detention of three peasant leaders that took place between December 15th and 16th. Roberto Taza, Adelso Gallo, Teofilo Acuña were arrested by members of the National Police and the Attorney General's Office and have been accused of pertaining to an armed guerrilla group. Movements have denounced the charges and setups and alleged that the arrests are part of the repressive strategy of the government of Iván Duque to persecute and criminalize social dissent in the country. The three leaders, which hail from different regions in the country, are well-recognized within Colombia and across the world for their work in defense of the land against multinational extractive projects of human rights and of the project to guarantee a dignified life for all in Colombia. They are part of the National Peasant Organization El Cuerde Aor Nacional Agrario as well as a platform of social movements, the People's Congress. They're also leaders and spokespersons of the Agrarian Peasant Ethnic and Popular Summit, a platform of rural organizations and people's movements formed following the massive agrarian strike in Colombia in 2013. They have vowed to fight this political persecution and prove their innocence. The arrests occur in a moment of increased harassment and violence against organized communities in Colombia. According to a report released by Indepas on December 15th, 85 massacres have been carried out in 2020 alone and over 1090 social leaders have been assassinated since 2016. We now go to India where despite a brutal cold wave, tens of thousands of farmers continue to be camped out on the borders of Delhi, demanding the withdrawal of three farm laws. The farmers feel these three laws will drive down the prices they get for their produce and will lead to greater corporate role in agriculture. The government has offered some concessions but has refused to accept their central demand. Meanwhile, sections associated with India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have continued to spread rumors and misinformation about the protest, despite the widespread support is gaining across the country. The farmers, however, have refused to yield. They see it as not just a struggle for their livelihood but also their democratic rights. We talk to a farmer's leader who explains more on this. We believe that the government's prestige, the prestige of Mr. Modi's and the government's prestige, is at stake. The way forward for us is that if we are sitting here, then we have to reform and reinforce the principle of Delhi. We have to call on other people. We have to discipline it more. We have to regularize it and make it systematic. And along with this, we have to call on the people of the country, the farmers, the people, the farmers and the people to take this issue, or the farmers' issue, and make it a matter of the country. Students, youth, employees, all think that agriculture is a matter of the country. It's a crisis, it's our crisis. It's our problem to resolve this crisis. So, for the people of the country to resolve this crisis, let's come to the field, and let's come to the field and form a united nation, people of any language, some religion, some caste. But let's come together and form a movement in the whole country. Which you are saying that I am also thinking that after the first 47, there has been a big wave like this. And to make it a more qualitatively big wave, I want to say again that the wave that should be interventioned in the political narrative of the country, should be changed in that wave. Next, we head to Bolivia, which after a year of struggle on the streets and highways against the coup and dictatorship led by the Bolivian far right and supported by the United States and the Organization of American States, they successfully held elections on October 18th, where in the movement towards socialism won in a landslide victory. Since then, movements and elected leaders in Bolivia have been working to recover what was lost under the year of dictatorship, economically, socially and politically, as well as taking forward the fight for justice. We spoke to Andrónico Rodríguez, a trade union leader from the tropics of Cochabamba, and now president of Bolivia's Senate, about these challenges and the tasks ahead. Organizing, registering, in a very responsible way, in the Senate's chamber, we have a great responsibility ahead of us, reconciliation, but with a lot of responsibility and of course what is required is for justice to be materialized for our brothers and sisters who have been victims of this criminal act in Bolivia. But beyond all this, we are in the obligation to reactivate the economy, social stability, economic policy, Bolivia has been paralyzed for more than almost a year and it is a great responsibility of the Senate's chamber to help in this sense the executive to take forward reconciliation with justice and of course economic reactivation, generation of jobs and again achieve social stability, economic policy. See you next week for another episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes and don't forget to check out our website at peoplesdispatch.org. We're going to sing, we're going to triumph, we're going to advance, we're going to march in unity. And you will come, leaving me with you, because if you come, you will sing and you will march in flowers.