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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)5/15/2011 7:58:34 am PDT

re: #187 Dark_Falcon

Columbia hasn’t had that kind of labor trouble in 10 years. Uribe put an end to it when he forced the Autodefencias (right wing paramilitaries) to disband.

That’d be nice if it were true, Dark, but you’re wrong.

infosurhoy.com

Luis Germn Restrepo Maldonado, a labor leader who was an advocate of a controversial trade accord with the United States, was fatally shot in Medelln, officials said on Aug. 13. Restrepo, 58, was fatally shot in a coffee shop, but police have not released the motive for the killing. Restrepo, who led the Sintraempaques union of packaging workers, stood out from many of the country’s labor leaders because he was a proponent of the 2006 trade agreement between Colombia and the U.S. that is pending approval from the U.S. Congress. Restrepo’s slaying occurred in the wake of a recent report by the International Trade Union Confederation that documented 48 of the world’s 101 killings of labor activists last year took place in Colombia.

That was last year.