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12 Nov 2012

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Amnesty International

Trade unionists receive more death threats [Colombia]

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On 7 November, a flyer was left at the home of Rafael Esquivel, the former President of the Bugalagrande branch of the National Union of Food Industry Workers (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Sistema Agroalimentario, SINALTRAINAL) and a former employee of Nestle…Trade unionists William Escobar, Álvaro Vega, Wilson Sáenz, Javier Correa, Julio López, Onofre Esquivel, Alvaro Varela, Fabio Olaya, Mauricio Gomez, Jairo Crespo from SINALTRAINAL, the Trade Union Congress (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, CUT) and the Union of Municipality Workers (Sindicato de Trabajadores del Municipio, SINTRAMUNICIPIO) were listed as “targets to exterminate” (“objetivo a exterminar”). This death threat comes just days after Julio Lopéz and four other members of SINALTRAINAL were threatened…