ABSTRACT
On November 23, 2019, Dilan Cruz, a 19-year-old student who had just finished high school, was killed in Bogotá by the ESMAD riot police during the most massive sustained protest Colombia has witnessed by far in its recent history. The protests were not only in favor of an effective implementation of the peace accord signed by the State with the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: People’s Army); but for the first time the protests were explicitly also in tune with the Latin American weave of mobilizations against the disastrous impact of neoliberalism on education, labor conditions and well-being. Dilan was, according to the testimony of the officer who killed him, “in the wrong place at the wrong time” (Judicial 2019). 1 The question is, of course, “wrong” for whom?
