An estimated 500 oil workers from Colombia’s second largest oilfield, Caño Limon-Coveñas, have been sent on leave, allegedly as a consequence of ongoing attacks from one of Colombia’s largest rebel…
An oil union leader and his wife were killed Tuesday in front of their children in southwestern Colombia. Mauricio Arrendondo and his wife Janeth Ordoñez Carlosama were assassinated during the…
Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS has denied any kind of illegal monitoring of Vice President Angelino Garzon after a union leader was arrested directly after meeting with him, Colombian newspaper El…
The slander trial for a lawsuit brought by trade unionists against former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s vice president and presidential adviser has been postponed until July, local media reported Tuesday.…
Neo-paramilitary group the “Aguilas Negras” have recently distributed pamphlets threatening journalists, lawyers, trade unionists and political leaders in the Caribbean coastal city of Barranquilla, media reported Monday. The group’s Central…
Colombia’s Confederation of Workers (CUT) on Thursday reported that the number of trade unionists who have been murdered in 2010 has risen to 38. The CUT called on President Juan…
Thirty-six Colombian trade union leaders have been assassinated so far in 2010, compared to 26 over the same period in 2009, according to Luis Alberto Vanegas, the director of the…
Via his Twitter account, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe mourned the death of prominent Colombian trade unionist Luis German Restrepo Maldonado, who was assassinated in Medellin Thursday. “I reject the assassination…
President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday disputed the findings of a damning report released by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which showed that almost half the 101 trade unionists murdered…