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Wednesday 17 February 2010

Local government union leader killed in Guatemala‏

The TUC has protested to the Guatemalan Ambassador in London about thekilling of a 5th trade union leader in Guatemala since November 2009, MrPedro Antonio Garcia a local government union leader was murdered afterorganising protests over non-payment of wages.

http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-17583-f0.cfm Several previous TUC protests to the Guatemalan embassy have met with noresponse. A report detailing the escalation of attacks from 2005 to 2010 has beenproduced by ITUC (in Spanish) and can be found at http://www.ituc-csi.org/guatemala-el-costo-de-la-libertad,5011.html?lang=fr