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Colombia: Genocide association

unionism TAS 31 KILLED IN YEAR SO FAR. GOVERNMENT URIBE, A PERPETUAL POINT DOLPHIN THROUGH YOUR SAINTS, IS REDUCE THE LEVEL OF THE HOLOCAUST


the figure stands at 31 trade unionists murdered in Colombia so far this year, a practice that Confederation of Workers (CUT) described as systematic as opposed to the arguments put forward by the government.

According to the complaint of the CUT , the most recent killing took place on Thursday when Nelson Camacho, a maintenance worker at the refinery ECOPETROL and member of the USO oil industry ( USO), was killed by gunmen.

Camacho's murder occurred when he was waiting for the bus to go to work and the assassins, who were traveling on a motorcycle hit him several bullets that killed him. This crime, warned CUT is the systematic continuation of a series of attacks and threats against leaders and members of the union, which occurs in a context of labor disputes that advances the profession with the multinational British Petroleum , TGI ECOPETROL and the departments Boyacá and Casanare and labor abnormality determined Colombian state oil company.

The CUT asked the Attorney General's Office and the competent authorities research exhaustive Camacho murder in order to determine their material and intellectual authors.

turn, demanded that the national government and ECOPETROL fully comply with the precautionary measures proffered by the Human Rights Commission for this organization and therefore be given all guarantees for the free exercise of union activity.

release from CUT

The Confederation of Workers of Colombia - CUT regrets the assassination of Nelson Camacho Gonzalez, Maintenance Worker Ecopetrol Refinery and affiliated to the Workers' Trade Union Petroleum Industry - USE.

The incident took place today, Thursday, June 17, 2010, at approximately 5:30 am, Nelson while waiting for the bus that would take him to your workplace, hired assassins on a motorcycle you handed shot several times, which ended his life.

The unfortunate fact is the systematic continuation of a series of attacks and threats against leaders and members the union to occur in the context of collective disputes being conducted by the union with the multinational British Petroleum in Casanare , Ecopetrol-UT Andean Pipeline and TGI in the departments of Boyacá and Casanare and labor abnormality determined Ecopetrol.

So far this year 2010 van 31 homicides of unionized population Colombia, seven of them against union leaders have also been four attacks and 56 threats from paramilitary groups primarily.

This reality contrasts with arguments liars government and entrepreneurs Colombia in the bosom of the recent ILO conference , which led to this body Colombia exclude the black list of the 25 countries that violate trade union rights in the world .

ask the Attorney General's Office and the competent authorities thorough investigation of this heinous crime that leads to identifying the perpetrators and masterminds.

We urge the national government and Ecopetrol SA to full compliance with the precautionary measures proffered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for this organization and therefore be given all guarantees for the free exercise of union activity.

Tarcisio Mora Godoy Domingo Tovar Arrieta (President Secretary General) Luis Alberto Vanegas
Z. (Department Director Human Rights and Solidarity)


Amnesty International Report 2007 (Summary)
trade unionism in Colombia. Killings, arbitrary detentions and death threats
the past two decades, Colombia have died of murder more than 2,000 trade and have been subjected to enforced disappearance over 138. In more than 90 percent of cases, those responsible have not been brought to justice. Although in recent years has reduced the number of killings of trade unionists, Amnesty International believes that human rights crisis faced by people who develop trade union activities is still serious. The Colombian authorities have taken some steps to improve security, however, must take more decisive action to ensure that it respects the right to freedom of association in law and in practice.

Despite the supposed demobilization of army-backed paramilitaries, apparently demobilized paramilitaries continue to kill and threaten trade unionists. Security forces have also been directly responsible for killings of trade unionists, as well as arbitrary instigate criminal proceedings against trade unionists. Amnesty International considers that it is applying a coordinated military-paramilitary strategy, which aims to undermine the work of these people, both through their physical elimination, as trying to discredit the legitimacy of trade union activities. The guerrillas have also been responsible for killings of trade unionists. Amnesty International

considers that the international community has an important role to play in efforts to ensure the right to freedom of association in Colombia . The fact that the International Labour Organization (ILO) decided in 2006 to establish a permanent presence in Colombia to keep tabs on the right to freedom of association is an excellent opportunity for the international community to closely monitor the crisis human rights faced by those engaged in union and ask the Colombian authorities to take decisive action to ensure their safety.


Hungry no democracy
Novoa Alejandro Angulo, S. J . (*) .

thoughtfully lets me listen to colleagues who expect not only more green vote but fewer votes of Uribe in the presidential elections of May 30, 2010.

perhaps believed in the polls, in which I also think, perhaps without realizing that this time it was an anomaly. It seems they forgot the popularity ratings of President-candidate. And forget that from words to action is a long way and more paramilitary in the ceiling. No social scientist who knows anything about Colombia may believe that the national samples of voting intentions to reach an outcome favorable to the ethics of legitimacy against the usual secular moral and physical cutoff. There was something that we still must explain the statistical and commonly be called "the problem of the samples," not to end up asking, as some people of "establishment", the more control the polling firms (that something is repressed).

Although interest me samples, I'm interested more reality. And that is portrayed to perfection in the figures. The country voted, that is, less than half of those entitled to vote, Uribe is 47%, ie, patronage and fervent supporter of the shortcut. This, of course, in all social strata and in all areas of daily lives. This does not mean that the other half is not, just do not know from these data. Instead, he verified that the belief in legality is a rare phenomenon: only just over 3 million who voted for Mockus, or, that is, less than a fifth of those who voted believe that the levers, bribery, extortion, threats, undue appropriation of the alien, tax evasion, perjury, fraud, coercion and even murder, are crimes. If anything is simple 'Peccadilloes' attesting to "ready" and the difference of "idiots."

However, not everything is a cultural problem. As these elections were a result not desired by the government of the day, it had been prepared for eight long years of his regime for this eventuality. An example: in a place of Cundinamarca whose name I remember, a gentleman who handle Uribe of Families in Action Families enrolled warned his Rangers that Sunday's vote would be made unanimously by JM Santos, if they wanted to usufruct why incisor columnist called "institutionalized begging." With only one who disobeyed the slogan inscribed Santos suffice for all families get out of the action and the Rangers out of their forests.

This type of 'political gimmicks' is the nerve of Colombian politics since 1810. And this device is called the control of hunger and was discovered since antiquity, when it was called slavery, but is still used today and is called humanitarian assistance. In both cases was and is a substitute for a living wage and in both cases was and is the contentillo who throws to the dispossessed by the war to not starve, but have no strength to protest.

ethics and legality are intangibles and desirable. Malnutrition, homelessness and the impossibility of getting a job are tangible and insupportable evils. Avoiding that evil is a necessity unbearable precedence over the desire of righteousness. Here is the secret of power. Any United Nations report, or, without going any further, the DANE, shows that levels are maintained in such evils in our country, affecting large portions of the Colombian population: 7 million informal workers are all people capital district, of which most have no more than disguised unemployment. Similarly, 3 million unemployed, are almost the entire population of Medellin in the terrible situation of moonlighting, in which anything goes, because it is desperate situations.

Political analysts should look beyond the electoral percentages of dyes policies, to understand that democracy is incompatible with hunger. The elections of hungry people, and Colombia is one of them, are not an indicator of democracy (the people, by the people and for the people.) On the contrary, these political rituals among us only reveal the true dimensions of the plutocracy (eaters), aristocracy (The rulers) and 'indiosincracia' (those not counted.) This last step of the citizenship of the paper is the depth explanation of the abstention, if I do not count, I'm not going to count. It's a natural reaction, albeit short-sighted. In the Colombian case is not only myopic, it is also disappointing, as confirmed by the fact that when we glimpse a different way to approach politics, proven or not, believers are three million forty-five, seven out of every hundred. A catastrophe for the pessimists and the optimists hope. In any case, the greenway is entitled to many years of trial and error to win an election, as they have had the patronage to set up your business.

(*) Novoa Alejandro Angulo SJ is director of the NIST Data Bank / PPP

(Sources: Prensa Latina, CUT, Amnesty International and NIST)

Berger Paints Olive Oil

Honduras: beats of 'democracy'

KILLED A former senior government of President Zelaya and another journalist, SO FAR NINE YEAR

liberal politician Honduran Roland Valenzuela, former government official of the ousted Manuel Zelaya, has been murdered in a hotel bar in the town of San Pedro Sula in the midst of a heated argument with an alleged employer, according to the National Police reported.

Valenzuela, who was manager of National Program for Sustainable Development (Pronaders) , was shot in the head inflicted by a man who has been identified by prosecutors as Carlos Yacamán , who had a "heated " discussion in the toilets. After the attack the former minister was taken to a hospital where he arrived without vital signs. The prosecutor on duty, Marco Cartagena , has refused to reveal more details to the press waiting to analyze images from security cameras at the bar. Medical Examiner's report indicates that the bullet entered the back of the neck and exited through the nose, causing the former official death almost immediately.

Valenzuela was considered a person close to Zelaya. After the coup of June 28, 2009, he joined the National Resistance Front which requires a return to Honduras the ousted leader and opposes the government "de facto" Roberto Micheletti, as well as the November general election in which he was elected Porfirio Lobo as president of Honduras


Nine journalists killed this year

A Honduran journalist, the ninth in what far in 2010, was killed Monday night by unknown assailants who fired from a moving vehicle in the town of Paradise , as reported by relatives and authorities told local media.

Luis Arturo Mondragon, who worked as news director of Channel 19 local cable, was shot about ten night, while sitting with one of his sons on the sidewalk of her home minutes after leaving the program, according to reports.

Mondragón had been threatened for criticizing local officials and members of corruption.

forensic authorities had not come to practice recognizing the body was still at around midnight on Monday.

The murder of journalists in Honduras is a growing phenomenon since the military and the oligarchy of the country staged a coup last June 29, 2009, to remove from office the democratically President elect Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

After this event, began the closure of media and persecution of journalists who openly positioned themselves against the coup.

In the month of November, in a context and without warranties dictatorial democratic general elections were held in which he was elected Porfirio Lobo, who currently presides over the country.

The National Front resistance against the coup reported that the elections were an attempt facelift to legitimize the dictatorship in power.

So far in 2010 and there are nine journalists killed in Honduras ., An alarming and denounced by various human rights organizations.

Other Honduran journalists killed during the year are Georgino Orellana (20 April) Chévez Luís Hernández (April 11), Mairena Bayardo and Manuel Juárez (March 26), Nahum Palacios (March 14), David Meza (11 March), Ochoa Joseph (March 1st) and Nicolas Asfura (February 18).

(Sources: Europa Press, and AFP LibreRed.net)

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Colombia: Second round 2010 presidential

NOMBRES.OPCIONES BEYOND THE TRUE AND FALSE in Colombian elections (*)

presidential elections next Sunday in Colombia are viewed as a new "consultation Uribe, as a rhetorical exercise in democracy where there is interplay between the candidates 'favorites' polls or the continuity of the economic model and repression of opposition movements.

Two decades ago, from the Colombian state was decimated some attempts of political opposition as they were the Patriotic Union and subsequently the M-19 open channel for the implementation of the neoliberal system.

And so with the breakdown which meant globally on 11 September 2001, Colombia appears in a political "Bush line very, very much in line Pentagon" as is Alvaro Uribe Velez, the outgoing chairman after failing second re-election attempt, a reflection from Colombia Cesar Vargas, a correspondent in that country of Radio Real World. Uribe

coined the term "Democratic Security" as a substitute just terminology of the National Security Doctrine. This, coupled with the "investor confidence" and "cohesion social "represent the tripod which was based on absolute power of Antioquia.

"From the side of us, democratic security meant and still means persecution of any kind of dissent, harassment of any kind of thought opposed to that model of government," says Vargas.

He cites the example of "false positives" that have received international condemnation, and the murder of union leaders, peasant communities and internally displaced persons as currency in the country.

In the current political opposition is gathered around the so-called Democratic Pole Alternatively, a front of organizations and leftist political parties with significant parliamentary involvement where they have aired serious allegations of abuse of power from the ruling party.

Its candidate, Gustavo Petro, is the only one that presents a break with the legacy Uribe at the repressive and economically.

climate that exists in Colombia in the days before the election, says Cesar Vargas have been murdered three or four field coordinators in Barranquilla, north, and in Buga, Valle del Cauca, which appears as "notice it is defined from the right that the rise of a leftist option will not allow. "

Petro himself has stated that his family is not made possible to remain in a fixed residence due to death threats hanging over them.

"Since its inception, the Democratic Pole has been linked to the guerrillas of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and therefore is considered" military targets. " Finally

Vargas examines the positioning of who was twice mayor of Bogota, Antanas Mockus, who could compete in a runoff with official Juan Manuel Santos. "Today we can say that Mockus Uribe is opposed to or in economic or in its authoritarian character. "

As Mayor Mockus formed ESMAD Mobile Riot Squad of the police, with a heavy syllabus on violence against social movements. Mockus

being Rector of the Universidad Nacional de Bogotá altered the tariff system with the system of tuition leaving vast popular sectors outside access to university education.

"There is a belief that voting for Mockus is to vote against Uribe but there is a work of political reading a bit more about proving that they do so," he concluded saying correspondent Real World Radio from Cali Colombia.

(*) Article distributed by Real World Radio before the first round. The second was played on June 20 Enrique Santos and Antanas Mockus