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Leader of SINALTRAINAL Assassinated in Colombia
 

ASESINADO DIRIGENTE DE SINALTRAINAL
Leader of SINALTRAINAL Assassinated

September 12, 2005

Con profundo dolor informamos que ha sido asesinado el compañero LUCIANO ENRIQUE ROMERO MOLINA dirigente de SINALTRAINAL. El compañero fue visto con vida por un familiar a eso de las 9:00 P. M., en su taxi de placas VP 473 marca Spring que manejaba el 10 de Septiembre de 2005 en la ciudad de Valledupar. Luego fue encontrado sin vida, amarrado y con aproximadamente 40 cuchilladas en su cuerpo y con signos de tortura.

It is with much pain we inform you that our comrade LUCIANO ENRIQUE ROMERO MOLINA, leader of SINALTRAINAL, has been assassinated. He was last seen by a family member at about 9:00 PM driving a Spring taxi with plates VP 473 on September 10th in the city of Valledupar. He was later found tied with about 40 stab wounds and signs of torture.

LUCIANO ROMERO tenía 45 años de edad, deja 4 hijos huérfanos y su compañera, trabajo en la empresa Cicolac – Nestle en la ciudad de Valledupar de donde salio despedido el 22 de octubre de 2002 debido a que la empresa busco al Ministerio de la Protección Social para que calificara un paro ilegal que nunca existió y que trataba de un mitin de protesta

Luciano Romero who was 45 years old and is survived by 4 children and his partner, worked in the Ciclac-Nestle factory in the city of Valledupar where he was fired on October 22, 2002 due to an allegation that he engaged in an illegal strike which was really a protest meeting.

Nuestro compañero LUCIANO había sido amenazado de muerte, por esa razón debió salir de la ciudad de Valledupar en varios ocasiones para proteger su vida y estuvo en Gijón Estado Español varios meses en un programa de protección y solidaridad. Actualmente era delegado de SINALTRAINAL ante el Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos, desde allí venía realizando actividades de solidaridad y atención humanitaria hacia los detenidos.

Our comrade Luciano had been threatened with death which is why on various occasions he had left Valledupar for his own protection and was once in Gijon, Spain in a program of protection and solidarity. He was the union’s delegate to the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee in which he carried out solidarity and humanitarian activities for the detainees.

Repudiamos este horrendo crimen, que hace parte de la interminable lista de dirigentes sindicales asesinados en Colombia, dentro de la estrategia de Terrorismo de Estado y la persecución desatada por las empresas para exterminar el movimiento sindical, condenamos al gobierno de Alvaro Uribe Vélez y su mentiroso diálogo de Paz con los grupos paramilitares que siguen masacrando a la población inerme y como reconocimiento del estado serán legalizados y premiados con la llamada ley de Justicia y Paz que no es otra cosa que perdón y olvido

We repudiate this horrendous crime, which is part of the interminable list of assassinated Colombian union leaders with in the strategy of State Terrorism and the persecution of carried out by corporations in order to exterminate the labor movement. We condemn the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez and its deceptive Peace dialog with paramilitary groups that continues to massacre the defenseless population and under the law of Justice and Peace they will be recognized as legal by the state which is nothing more that a pardon.

Enviar notas de protesta a Presidente de la República de Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez a la Carrera 8 No 7 -26 Palacio de Nariño, Bogotá D. C., Telefax: (57) 1 5662071, E-mail: auribe@presidencia.gov.co

Send protest letters to:
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Presidente de la República de Colombia
Carrera 8 No 7 -26 Palacio de Nariño,
Bogotá D. C.,
Colombia, South America

Telefax: (57) 1 5662071, E-mail: auribe@presidencia.gov.co

Atentamente,
Fraternally,

LUIS JAVIER CORREA SUAREZ
Presidente

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