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 . (*) .
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."
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.
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)
(*) Novoa Alejandro Angulo SJ is director of the NIST Data Bank / PPP
(Sources: Prensa Latina, CUT, Amnesty International and NIST)
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