English
English
English
Russian
Russian
Spanish
Spanish


To participate in other IUF campaigns, please click here.


Date updated : 28-May-2011

Status: closed

© 2012 IUF
XHTML
CSS

This campaign is now closed.
Diese Kampagne ist abgeschlossen.
Cette campagne est close.
Esta campaña ha terminado.
Kampanjen er avsluttet.

Guatemalan banana union leader murdered

Anti-union violence in Guatemala is escalating. On May 26, Idar Joel Hernandez Godoy, finance secretary of the IUF-affiliated banana workers union SITRABI, was shot dead by a gunman on motorcycle while driving through the village of Cristina to the union headquarters in the town of Morales.

This brutal assassination follows on the April 10 murder of SITRABI officer Oscar Humberto Gonzalez Vasquez, killed by two men on a motorcycle in Nueva Chiriqui, Morales. SITRABI leader Marco Tulio Ramirez was murdered in September 2007.

Act now! – use the form below to send a message to the president of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom Caballeros to condemn this latest murder of a banana union leader and to demand that the perpetrators be swiftly brought to Justice.