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Death of two babies heightens criticism of Colombia protestors’ roadblocks

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A baby is born with a reserved prognosis (low probability of survival with dignity) in Buenaventura, a city where 42% of Colombia's foreign trade is conducted, but there is no Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the public hospital.

They decide to intubate her and rush her to Cali, over 100 kilometers away. It is midnight and a medical team starts a journey that in normal times would take two hours. But a few kilometers from the port, in a location known as La Delfina, they run into a roadblock, another feature of the Colombian protests . . .

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