Reply #62: Colombia: La Rosa Nestlé food worker and union leader killed at his home [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia: La Rosa Nestlé food worker and union leader
killed at his home
Report by Luis Javier Correa Suarez, President Sinaltrainal
Published here: 31/08/09

La Rosa Nestlé Food Worker and Leader of Sinaltrainal in Colombia Killed at his Home
August 24, 2009

It is with deep sorrow that we announce that on 21 August 2009, at approximately 6:30 PM, strangers arrived at the home of La Rosa SA Nestlé worker and member of the Township SINALTRAINAL Dosquebradas GUSTAVO GOMEZ, knocked on the door and when GUSTAVO GÓMEZ opened it, he was shot 10 times. He was immediately brought to the Comfamiliar clinic where he died hours later.

Comrade Gustavo Gómez was a member of the Board of Sinaltrainal Sectional Dosquebradas from 1997 until 2000, was a cousin of JOSE DE JESUS MARIN-VARGAS worker Nestlé SA Comestibles La Rosa and member of SINALTRAINAL, also murdered on November 22, 2007 in the town of Dosquebradas.

Unfortunately, this crime occurs at a time when Sinaltrainal has submitted a petition to Nestle Purina PetCare Company de Colombia SA. The list of Nestlé SINALTRAINAL members murdered in Colombia now stands at 12 employees.

We have previously reported to the authorities of the constant threats of death which we SINALTRAINAL members in Colombia have received and we have asked the authorities to investigate and punish those responsible. But while the murders continue, the international community believes that unionists are protected by the state and continues to accept the regime of Álvaro Uribe Vélez.

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http://www.labournet.net/world/0908/colomb1.html