Body of missing Colombian labor leader found in dump
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[July 16, 2008]

Body of missing Colombian labor leader found in dump

(EFE Ingles Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Bogota, Jul 16 (EFE).- The body of missing union leader Guillermo Rivera, 52, was found at a dump near the town of Ibague, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Bogota, Colombia's CTC labor federation said Wednesday.



Rivera, a Bogota city employee and president of the municipal workers union who was also active in politics, had not been seen since dropping off his daughter at her school-bus stop in the capital on April 22.

The CTC said in a statement that Rivera died April 28, apparently after having been detained by the police.



Colombia's main opposition party, the leftist PDA, said prior to the discovery of the body that witness testimony and video evidence indicated Rivera was seized by members of Bogota's Metropolitan Police.

"The events demonstrate that contrary to official propaganda, the state still does not provide sufficient guarantees to exercise the constitutional rights to life, liberty, union and political organization and participation by members of the opposition," the PDA said.

Rivera's body was identified by wife Sonia Betancourt, who said the last she had heard of her husband was that he was under arrest.

More than 2,700 Colombian union members have been slain in the past 20 years, according to figures from the International Labor Organization.

Colombia's status as the world's most dangerous country for trade unionists is one of the reasons cited by congressional Democrats in the United States for their unwillingness to ratifying the trade treaty the Bush administration negotiated with Bogota in 2006. EFE

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Copyright ? 2008 EFE News Services (U.S.) Inc.

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