In Colombia, tens of thousands of indigenous Colombians continue their national march against the government of President Alvaro Uribe. The crowd set out Thursday, just hours after Uribe admitted police officers fired on them in a protest earlier this week. Indigenous leader Lorenzo Muelas denounced Uribe.

Lorenzo Muelas: “President Uribe is not a friend of the indigenous groups. We know that many of the laws he passes through congress are anti-indigenous.”

In other news from Colombia, Uribe’s top intelligence chief has resigned after acknowledging her agency spied on some of Uribe’s political opponents. DAS head Maria del Pilar Hurtado blamed the spying on individual agents. But opposition senator Gustavo Petro said the order likely came from Uribe.

Gustavo Petro: “Who else could have given that order, if it wasn’t the intelligence chief? That is the question that the Colombian president, who is directly responsible for the police security administrative department, should give us in order to satisfy our demands to make a real democracy in Colombia and not the military state that seems to be what is happening in Colombia.”

Meanwhile, at least five people were injured in a series of small explosions around the capital Bogota on Thursday.