Student demonstrations in Bogota demanding for more higher education funding descended into violence on Thursday, December 13.

The march began at around 3 pm as demonstrators headed off from the National University towards Journalists' Park. In the video, police armed in riot gear can be seen firing tear gas to disperse unruly protesters.

Thursday's demonstration marks the last in a series of marches, many ending in violence, organised by students demanding an increase in funds for higher education. Student enrollment in the South American nation's public universities has quadrupled since the early 1990s, while spending has only marginally increased.

The last march of the year ended in riots with the police and anti-riots squadron in the city of Bogotá.

The appointment was at the National University where they would meet students from the Pedagogical University and District University. They would take 45th Street and then to the journalists' park in downtown Bogota.