The Activist

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Posts Tagged ‘paramilitaries’

Venezuelan Trade Unionists Assassinated

By Guest Author • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: Exogenous Views

As reported by Venezuelanalysis
Three trade unionists Richard Gallardo, Luis Hernández and Carlos Requena, leaders of the pro-revolution National Union of Workers (UNT) and also members of the United Socialist Left party were shot dead late Thursday night in Aragua state, Venezuela.
The union leaders were gunned down by an armed assassin on a motorbike as they […]


The Guns Were Made Here

By Guest Author • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

The assassination this weekend of trade union leader Jose Omar Galeano in the Colombian city of Buga, brings to 38 the number of trade unionists affiliated to the CUT union federation who have been murdered in the country so far this year. Mr Galeano, the national leader of the lottery workers union FECOLOC, was shot […]