| It is with deep pain
that we inform you of the death of comrade LUCIANO ENRIQUE ROMERO
MOLINA, a leader of SINALTRANAL who was assassinated in the
city of Valledupar, Cesar. Luciano was seen alive at approximately
9pm on10 September, then on the morning of 11 September his dead
body was found tied up, tortured and with 40 knife wounds. He was
living under thePROTECTIVE MEASURES scheme of the Inter-American
Human Rights Commission of the Organisation of American States.
LUCIANO was 47 years old. He leaves 4 children and
his partner Ledys Mendoza. He had worked for 20 years at NESTLÉ
- Cicolac in Valledupar. He was sacked from there 22 October 2002,
for a supposed cease of [work]
activities that was declared illegal by the Ministry of Social Protection.
There is a demand for comrade Luciano Romero?s reinstatement in
process through the First Labour Court of the Valledupar Circuit.
The demand is against NESTLE DE COLOMBIA S.A., CICOLAC LTDA. and
DAIRY PARTENS AMERICAS MANOFACTURING COLOMBIA LTDA. "DPA COLOMBIA
LIMITADA".
LUCIANO was an outstanding leader of SINALTRAINAL
and currently was our representative on the Foundation Committee
of Solidarity with Political Prisoners [Fundación Comité
de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos -[FCSPP] from where
he carried out activities of solidarity and humanitarian assistance
for the detainees. on different occasions. From the end of 2004
he stayed several months in Gijón, Spain in a protection
and solidarity programme; and he had returned to Colombia at the
beginning of this year.
We repudiate this horrendous murder that adds LUCIANO
ENRIQUE ROMERO MOLINA to the interminable list of assassinated union
leaders in Colombia, [carried out] within the strategy of State
Terrorism and through the persecution unleashed by the corporations
to exterminate the trade union movement.
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We condemn once again
the government of Álvaro Uribe Vélez and his deceitful
"peace process" with the paramilitary groups, which as
we see continue massacring the unarmed population, with their crimes
protected by total impunity thanks to the "Justice and Peace
Law".
Please write to the following
:
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Presidente de la República de Colombia
auribe@presidencia.gov.co;
dh@presidencia.gov.co
Vicepresidente Francisco Santos
fsantos@presidencia.gov.co
Dr. Carlos Franco,
Director del Programa Presidencial de Derechos
Humanos y de Derecho Internacional Humanitario.
cefranco@presidencia.gov.co
Fiscal General de la Nación
Dr. Mario Iguarán Arana
contacto@fiscalia.gov.co;
denuncie@fiscalia.gov.co;
webmaster@fiscalia.gov.co
Comisión Interamericana de
Derechos Humanos
cidhoea@oas.org
Send copy to:
sinaltrainal@sinaltrainal.org
Colombia
Support Network
P.O. Box 1505
Madison, WI 53701-1505
phone: (608) 257-8753
fax: (608) 255-6621
e-mail: csn@igc.org
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