Author


• SINALTRAINAL

Date Created


• 12 Sep 2005

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It is with much pain we inform you that our comrade LUCIANO ENRIQUE ROMERO MOLINA, President of SINALTRAINAL, has been assassinated. He was last seen by a family member at about 9:00 PM driving a Spring taxi with plates VP 473 on
September 10th in the city of Valledupar. He was later found tied with about 40 stab wounds and signs of torture.

Luciano Romero who was 45 years old and is survived by 4 children and his partner, worked in the Ciclac-Nestle factory in the city of Valledupar where he was fired on October 22, 2002 due to an allegation that he engaged in an illegal
strike which was really a protest meeting.

Our comrade Luciano had been threatened with death which is why on various occasions he had left Valledupar for his own protection and was once in Gijon, Spain in a program of protection and solidarity. He was the unions delegate to the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee in which he carried out solidarity and humanitarian activities for the detainees.

We repudiate this horrendous crime, which is part of the interminable list of assassinated Colombian union leaders with in the strategy of State Terrorism and the persecution of carried out by corporations in order to exterminate the
labor movement. We condemn the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez and its deceptive Peace dialog with paramilitary groups that continues to
massacre the defenseless population and under the law of Justice and Peace they will be
recognized as legal by the state which is nothing more that a pardon.

Send protest letters to:
Les pedimos enviar notas de protesta:
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Presidente de la República de Colombia
auribe (at) presidencia.gov.co; dh (at) presidencia.gov.co

Vicepresidente Francisco Santos
fsantos (at) presidencia.gov.co

Dr. Carlos Franco,
Director del Programa Presidencial de Derechos
Humanos y de Derecho Internacional Humanitario.
cefranco (at) presidencia.gov.co

Fiscal General de la Nación
Dr. Mario Iguarán Arana
contacto (at) fiscalia.gov.co; denuncie (at) fiscalia.gov.co;
webmaster (at) fiscalia.gov.co

Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
cidhoea (at) oas.org

Con copia a
sinaltrainal (at) sinaltrainal.org

Un gran abrazo y gracias por su solidaridad,

EDGAR PAEZ M.
Dirección Nacional
SINALTRAINAL - Colombia