Report of the roads blocked by student demonstrations

The race 30 on the road 23 and the seventh race on the street 40 are blocked in both carriageways of the demonstrations. President Santos returned to make a call to youth to end the strike and return to school.
The authorities also reported congestion in the area of ​​galleries, with 26 street race 55, the Avenue of the Americas and 13th Street Boyaca and Avenida Caracas.
Sena students who were in Caracas Avenue and Calle 52 began to move, and students progress through the same institution Caracas Avenue to the north and 13th Street to the west.
Demonstrations in other ways
South on Highway mobilized about 4000 students, reported the Ministry of Mobility in Bogotá.
There are also marches in Usme on Caracas Avenue at 51st Street south to the north, in May Day Avenue and Avenida Boyacá, to the east, in the race 30 with 19th Street to the east and 12th Street to the north; on Calle 13 with Carrera 50, toward the east on 19th Street to Seventh race, in Circunvalar Avenue, turned onto the street and 53 to West 20th Street.
It is anticipated that at least 200,000 people, including students, parents and union representatives who support the march, arriving on Thursday from different parts of Bogota to gather at noon in the Plaza de Bolivar.
The marches are also moving in cities such as Cucuta, Medellin, Pasto, Barranquilla and Ibague.
Alternate routes
Authorities recommend those who are mobilized for the race 30 and Calle 45, on the east, take 53 Street to the west and east 19th Street.
They also suggest to those who cross the street race 72 with 11, take the Avenida Caracas and Calle 63.
For the race on the street 30 63, recommend taking the race 63 and 50 south.
In the street 19 with Caracas avenue suggested forwarding the street 22.
On the street race 13 with the alternate route 36 would be the street 6.
On Calle 80 with Carrera 27 is suggested to take Suba Avenue and Calle 72.
On Avenida Caracas and Calle 4, to the north, the alternate route is the race 19 and race 27.
In the seventh race with 40 street, driveway west to the south, take the race 13 and Avenida Caracas.
Mobilizations in Colombia
The marches are also moving in cities such as Cucuta, Medellin, Pasto, Barranquilla, Florence, Monteria and Ibague, and towns such as Buenaventura.
A spokesman for the Colombian Student Organization (ECO), Sergio Fernandez, said the protests are massive and take place in calm and with the support of unions and other organizations and social movements or community.
The marches are part of a national day of mobilization that converge in the afternoon in the central squares of the capital cities and will Bogotá axis.
Fernandez said that the four cardinal points of the Colombian capital are entering university delegations on motorcycles and buses from various cities.
"The delegations
are over 20 universities "elsewhere, said CBS spokesman from the highway south of Bogota, a busy road on which it runs one of several marches convened in the city.
To m
enos four demonstrations throughout the city, according to a preliminary report provided by the Mayor of Bogotá, which closely follows the marches to warn drivers of traffic jams and recommend ways out.
"We are all committed to ensure the organized mobilization of students, but they are also committed traffic flowing to seven million people in the capital of the Republic," said the mayor in charge of the city, Clara Lopez.
CBS spokesman insisted that the protest has been called from the civility and peaceful.
Reasons for progress
The mobilization of this Thursday is the third nationwide convened by the OCE and the Federation of University Students (FEU) against a proposed amendment to the higher education that the government of President Juan Manuel Santos presented to Congress on Oct. 3.
In protest at not having been agreed with the university community, most of the 32 public universities in Colombia went on 12 of the same month in an indefinite strike.
On Wednesday, Santos was willing to withdraw the legislative initiative to change the return to classes about 600,000 university students in public institutions.
But Fernandez defended the continuation of the protest because, in his view, "you have to do is to withdraw unconditionally government reform."
In several public statements, Santos has insisted that its initiative ensures more financial resources for the sector (about 5.74 billion dollars over the next 10 years), some of them to increase the coverage, and greater quality of education.
By contrast, the ECO and FEU say the project threatens the government financing institutions, affecting their autonomy, threatening the quality of teaching and "reduces education to a commodity."
Bogotá