Colombian Labor Scholar Says Union Members Face Genocide
28th February 2008
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Loading ...Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world for trade union members. Over the past 22 years, more than 2,500 union members have been murdered and another 6,500 have been threatened, attacked, kidnapped, tortured or harassed.
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Despite a promise by Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe to crack down on violence, not one of the killers of trade unionists has been brought to trial in two years (see chart). Yet the Bush administration is rushing to pass a trade deal with Colombia before the November elections.