Daniel had received threats and had been harassed, as several of his colleagues of the Movement 14 de Junio.

This reprehensible crime adds up to other threats and persecution against trade union and social leaders, as well as Parliamentary and Executive attacks from the government against the welfare of Colombian workers, mainly under the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.

« It is absolutely tragic that right now while they are talking about redemption in the country with the FTA, they announce the firing of 70,000 workers », says Wilson Arias Castillo, political leader and congress member with the party Polo Democrático Alternativo. In interview with Real World Radio he analyzed the current situation of the Colombian working class and the threat against the lives of unionized workers.

Large workers’, student’s, parents’, housewives, unemployed, peasants and indigenous sectors took to the streets in the main Colombian cities to demand labor and social rights and to repudiate the privatizing initiatives of Juan Manuel Santos administration.

We also interviewed Jorge Eliecer Aguirre, leader of Sinalcorteros, who said Aguirre’s murder was a hard blow for the workers in their fight against the businessmen who own the sugar refineries.

Photos: Don Palabras