Street Blockades and Battles

Police attack a picket by SUNTRACS, the Marxist construction union, wounding Al Iromi Smith Renteria. He is later shot and killed entering a health clinic. It is the third local SUNTRACS leader to be killed by police or company goons in six months. Demonstrations spread across the country, spiraling into street blockades and battles waged by students and workers against police. SUNTRACS homes organize armed defense, while the government claims it was some kind of conspiracy and signs arrest warrants for SUNTRACS leaders, which it eventual retracts.