Colombian police

Colombia's government has modified a set of guidelines that dictate how police should react to street protests, giving officers greater leeway to break up demonstrations in which protesters are vandalizing public property or disrupting access to essential services through actions like roadblocks.

Colombia's social unrest is rooted in Latin America's crushing economic inequality — but in Florida, the GOP scores bigger points by falsely blaming it on Marxism.

COMMENTARY President Duque's new, moderate tack on Colombia's protests is bad news for his right-wing backers and left-wing attackers — there and here.