On October 25, 2009, Guatemalan trade union leader Víctor Gálvez was gunned down...Gálvez was a community leader and a member of the natural resources protection and resistance front...The situation in Guatemala has worsened since the passing of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement with over forty labor and campesino activists murdered in the past few years...Gálvez was a well-respected unionist who led the efforts against labor violations by the companies DEOCSA and DEORSA, subsidiaries of...Union FENOSA.