From: Colombian Labor Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:17:50 -0500 (CDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SINTRAEMCALI: EMCALI workers victims of Colombia's Dirty War ________________________________________________________________ SINTRAEMCALI [Colombia] Monday, 21 May 2001 The Workers of EMCALI Continue Being Victims of the Orgy of Blood and the Brutal Dirty War that Assails the Country In the name of all our shocked and angry members, the Executive Committee of SINTRAEMCALI rejects the vile assassination of comrade CARLOS ELIECER PRADO, and we place the responsibility for this on the Colombian State as the generator of the violence against the trade union movement and the Cali community. The death of comrade CARLOS ELIECER PRADO, a member of SINTRAEMCALI, once again reminds us of the sacrifices that the defenders of EMCALI * are condemned with, for our firm opposition to the policies of the Colombian State and the IMF. We, Colombian trade unionists, have been targeted by dark forces moving inside the State itself. They seek to silence through assassination, eviction or terror those who are against privatisation and those who defend human rights. It is strange that when there has been an energetic rejection of the proposal to change EMCALI's name to SSPD, which was meant to be the final blow to EMCALI as a state corporation, they have assassinated those workers who raised their voice in protest to defend the common good represented by EMCALI. We ask for the solidarity of all our sister organisations, and that you reject the orgy of blood that gives us such sorrow, including the indifference of the National, Departmental and Municipal governments. LUIS ANTONIO HERNANDEZ Vice President SINTRAEMCALI IS FOR THE DEFENCE OF EMCALI UP TO LIFE ITSELF "Better to Die for Something than to Live for Nothing" Cali, 21 May 2001 (Translated on request of the author by Colombia Solidarity Campaign, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) * Empresa Cali (EMCALI) is the state sector corporation responsible for supplying municipal services such as water, drainage, electricity and telephones to homes and businesses in Cali, a city of just over 2 million inhabitants. ________________________________________________________________ **************************************************************** * CLM-NEWS is brought to you by the COLOMBIAN LABOR MONITOR at * * http://www.prairienet.org/clm * * and the CHICAGO COLOMBIA COMMITTEE * * Email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or * * Dennis Grammenos at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * **************************************************************** * To unsubscribe send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * unsubscribe clm-news * **************************************************************** _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
