The Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) began a serie of strikes and protests this monday in all regions of the country, threatening to call for a national strike in the oil sector. Last Friday, February 27, the National Board of Representatives of the USO concluded their meeting with a declaration that called for the workers and affiliated members to mobilize, proposing the possibility of a national strike. This monday workers responded to the call, initiating actions of mobilizations and strikes in various companies on a regional level.
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Who is Alexander Tibacuy Laguado? Recently, members of the CTI and SIJIN arrested the communal leader Alexander Tibacuy as results of an investigation on crimes related to the Concert of Delinquency and Financing of Terrorism.
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On February 26th and 27th, Arauca’s police supervisor will try to force around 40 families that occupy their lands, and were dispossessed by the oil transnational OXY more than 20 years ago, out of their lands. Paramilitary threats, resistance of farmers and indigenous communities. The 40 families that insist on recuperating their lands despite the siege of the oil’s security forces, the police and the army have already settled back since 16 month.
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The following signatory organizations express their deep concern following the January 21, 2015 assassination of CARLOS ALBERTO PEDRAZA SALCEDO, teacher and community organizer from Bogota, Colombia. He was a member of the social organization The People’s Congress, as well the Movement of Victims of State Crimes.
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So far this year, 13 leaders of the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) have received death threats in various regions of the country. Two of them have been attacked with firearms. “Complicit silence reigns on the part of the national authorities,” says the union, which raises the possibility of “a preconceived plan being deployed from a single command center.” The USO is considering possibilities for mobilization.
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While undergoing peace negotiations with the FARC, Colombia has recently acquired 32 combat and troop transportation vehicles (LAV III) through the Canadian commercial corporation (CCC), a crown corporation acting as a contracting and international supply agency. The transaction was officially announced in Canada on January 10th by the CCC, but the Colombian army’s website reported that the first LAV III had arrived in Colombia in September 2014, and that the vehicles’ destination is a military base located in the department of La Guajira. Constructed by General Dynamics Land Systems, bas
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Simply update 3:02 pm] The opinion of Legal Medicine establishes that the death of the Peoples Congress leader, Carlos Pedraza, was produced by "projectile gun [causing] a lesion located at the skull with a travel from back to the forth (...) with a low speed gun". This evidence confirms the hypothesis that the murder is a political crime in a context in which social leaders, among whom are his closets companions- were threatened with death.
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We never want to have to redact press release or letters for comarades with whome we share our dreams and hopes... With sadness and rage we announce the death of Carlos Alberto Pedraza, found dead on wednesday january 21st . His all life turned around the defense of justice, equality, liberty self determination and dignity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GuZHV1S1E
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On January 22, the Unión Sindical Obrero (USO) returned to Campo Rubiales in an act of strength and defiance to show that nor threats, nor assassinations, nor contract terminations can keep the USO away. This public return involved various events with USO members from all over Colombia as well as participation from accompanying organizations and groups such as members from the Sikuani community in Puerto Gaitan, the Comite Ambiental Agrario y Comunitario de Puerto Gaitan, the National Movement for Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), CUT (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores), student groups from
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