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Judi Lynn

(160,547 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 04:36 AM Apr 2014

Colombia: 'terrorist' attack on union headquarters

Colombia: 'terrorist' attack on union headquarters
Submitted by WW4 Report on Sat, 04/19/2014 - 02:45 Andean Theater

The offices of the Cali Municipal Workers Synidicate (Sintraemcali), located in the center of the Colombian industrial city, was attacked with hurled incendiary bombs April 16, causing damage to the facade and plumbing of the building. Sintraemcali called the bombing a "terrorist attack," and pledged to file a complaint with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. The attack came five days after a judge in Bogotá ordered the president of the republic, Juan Manuel Santos, to issue a formal pardon to members of Sintraemcali, the Colombian University Workers Syndicate (Sintraunicol) and the Bogotá Telecommunications Workers Synidate (Sintratelefonos), who had been accused by former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez of being linked to terrorist groups and constituting a "Brotherhood of Terrorism." (Radio Caracol, Etorno Inteligente, April 16)

Colombia remains the most dangerous country in the world for unionists.

http://ww4report.com/node/13162

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Colombia: 'terrorist' attack on union headquarters (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2014 OP
Would be a step in the right direction to call corporate interests that threaten and murder union gtar100 Apr 2014 #1

gtar100

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1. Would be a step in the right direction to call corporate interests that threaten and murder union
Mon Apr 21, 2014, 10:04 AM
Apr 2014

leaders "terrorists" because they are no less despicable than those who terrorize for political or religious reasons. Just because they are bankers and businessmen doesn't give them the right to murder and intimidate others to manipulate circumstances to their favor, yet that is precisely what they do.

This has been a long standing problem in Columbia. The rich in that country have a lot of blood on their hands.

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