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[Marxism] Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia
BOGOTÃ, _Colombia_
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/colombia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo)
â Lucy GÃmez still
shudders when speaking of the murder of her brother, Leonidas, a union leader
and
bank employee who was beaten and stabbed to death here last month. His murder
was part of a recent increase in killings of union members in Colombia, with
17 already this year.
âI want those who did this to pay for their crime,â said Ms. GÃmez, 37, a
seamstress, clutching a faded photograph of her brother, an employee of
Citigroupâs Colombian unit who was 42. âBut I feel in danger myself,â she
said. â
This is not a country where one can express such a wish without fear of being
eliminated like my brother.â
Ms. GÃmezâs fear and similar dread felt by union members and their families
have long been features of labor organization during this countryâs
four-decade civil war. More than 2,500 union members in Colombia have been
killed since
1985, with fewer than 100 cases resulting in convictions, according to the
National Labor School, a labor research group in MedellÃn.
Now those killings are emerging as a pressing issue in Washington as
Democrats and Republicans battle over a trade deal with Colombia, the Bush
administrationâs top ally in Latin America. \
full - <_http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/world/americas/14colombia.html?hp_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/world/americas/14colombia.html?hp) .
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