President of SINALTRAINAL Assassinated

[DrDebugDU]

t is with much pain that we inform you that our comrade LUCIANO ENRIQUE ROMERO MOLINA, President of SINALTRAINAL, has been assassinated. He was last seen by a family member at about 9:00 PM driving a Spring taxi with plates VP 473 on September 10th in the city of Valledupar. He was later found tied with about 40 stab wounds and signs of torture.<br><br>Luciano Romero, who was 45 years old and is survived by 4 children and his partner, worked in the Ciclac-Nestle factory in the city of Valledupar where he was fired on October 22, 2002 due to an allegation that he engaged in an illegal strike which was really a protest meeting. <br><br>Our comrade Luciano had been threatened with death which is why on various occasions he had left Valledupar for his own protection and was once in Gijon, Spain, in a program of protection and solidarity. He was the union's delegate to the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee in which he carried out solidarity and humanitarian activities for the detainees.<br><br>We repudiate this horrendous crime, which is part of the interminable list of assassinated Colombian union leaders within the strategy of State Terrorism and the inhindered persecution carried out by corporations in order to exterminate the labor movement. We condemn the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez and its deceptive "Peace Dialogue" with the paramilitary groups, that continue to massacre the defenseless population, and will be recognized by the State, legalized and rewarded under the law of "Justice and Peace," which is nothing more than a pardon.<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.campaignforlaborrights.org/alerts/2005/sept13-sinaltrainal.htm">www.campaignforlaborrights.org/alerts/2005/sept13-sinaltrainal.htm</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[dbeach]

"We condemn the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez and its deceptive "Peace Dialogue" with the paramilitary groups, that continue to massacre the defenseless population, and will be recognized by the State, legalized and rewarded under the law of "Justice and Peace," which is nothing more than a pardon.'<br><br>why DO THE TACTICS SOUND SO FAMILIAR???<br> <p></p><i></i>

[DrDebugDU]

It sounds like School of the Americas now known as Western Hemisphere Institute for 'Security Cooperation'... <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

Peace and Justice indeed. There's a paramilitary group in Chiapas called "Paz y Justicia". Needless to say, they are interested in neither. But you know...it's all in the name of fighting the drug trade. rah rah. <p></p><i></i>

[wintler]

To be clear, Luciano Romero was organising workers at a Nestle (part owned) plant?<br><br>Theres a company with a huge number white world products, many discretionary (e.g. sweeties), which are easier to get ppl to not/alt buy. <p></p><i></i>