Anti-Trump protesters fireplace arrows at Colombian police, injuring 4

Four law enforcement officials in Colombia’s capital had been injured on Friday (October 18, 2025) after protesters exterior the U.S. embassy fired arrows and explosives throughout a rally towards President Donald Trump’s insurance policies, officers stated.

“Delinquents, some of whom were hooded, attacked the embassy with incendiary devices, explosives and arrows,” stated Bogota Mayor Carlos Fernando Galan. “Four police officers were wounded in the face, legs and arms.”

The Defence Ministry shared photographs depicting a chaotic scene exterior the embassy, with one displaying an officer with an arrow lodged in his arm.

The protest group, which referred to as themselves “Congreso de los Pueblos” (People’s Congress), staged the occasion exterior the embassy to denounce the right-wing agenda of Trump, a spokesperson for the group, Jimmy Moreno, informed AFP.

“We are demonstrating for our sovereignty, no more interference from the United States, against everything the United States has been involved in the genocide of Palestinians, its interference in Latin America, and the threats it has been making in the Caribbean… against the Venezuelan Bolivar model,” Mr. Moreno stated.

The group started staging protests on Monday (October 13) in numerous areas all through Bogota, however they didn’t flip violent till Friday (October 17).

Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro, who has discovered himself at odds with Trump at numerous factors this yr, stated in a publish on the social community X that he “ordered maximum caution with the U.S. embassy in Bogota.”

“A more radical group has attacked the police guarding the embassy, with several young people injured with arrows,” he added.

The protest group expressed settlement with Mr. Petro in a bulletin however referred to as on the federal government to construct “an anti-imperialist front.”