Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro plans to create a truth commission to investigate the violent repression of protest that left many dozens dead and hundreds in jail between 2019 and 2021. The uprisingsNational Strike (November 2019 – February 2020)Duque’s attempts to push through a broadly opposed tax reform triggered largely peaceful National Strike protests that were violently repressed by police. Duque’s attempts to push through a broadly opposed tax reform triggered largely peaceful National Strike protests that were violently repressed by police. National Strike II (April 2021 – July 2021)Growing social opposition to Duque’s far-right policies converted the second leg of the National Strike into an uprising that effectively banned the police from significant parts of Colombia’s largest cities. The commission will be given a year to investigate the police violence and present its conclusions.