FLOC: Confession by Alleged Murderer of Organizer ‘Doesn’t Ring True’

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/05/29/floc-confession-by-alleged-murderer-of-organizer-doesnt-ring-true/

FLOC: Confession by Alleged Murderer of Organizer ‘Doesn’t Ring True’

by Mike Hall, May 29, 2007

One man has been detained in northern Mexico after allegedly confessing to taking part in the April beating death of Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). Police say they are searching for two others.


Santiago Rafael Cruz

But FLOC officials say the police accounts of a supposed confession don’t ring true. Says FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez:

This case is far from being solved.

He also told the Toledo Blade that FLOC attorneys who reviewed the reported confession “didn’t believe a word of the government’s case.”

Cruz was found bound and beaten to death in FLOC’s Monterrey, Mexico, office April 9. The union opened the office in 2005 to help guest workers obtain legal visas to work in North Carolina.

The FLOC office also fights corruption in the recruitment process. Velasquez says union investigations have uncovered widespread corruption among Mexican labor recruiters and that Cruz, who had been on the job in Monterrey for less than a month before he was killed, was helping workers obtain legal visas without paying the exorbitant fees demanded by some recruiters.

FULL story at link.

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1. This man should never have suffered like he did. Contrary to what many

here would like to believe, I hope they catch the killers of this man. He was working hard to make sure that people came in to this country LEGALLY. With visas. Like it is supposed to be done.

And someone killed him for obeying the rules.

I hope they catch them, soon.