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Aug 22
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The President of the packers union, Sintraempaques, who was 58 years old, died at the hands of hired killers in the centre of the capital of the Department of Antioquia.
The denunciation of the CUT (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores) stated that the killing of German Restrepo adds to a long list of fallen union spokespeople in the horrible violent tragedy that exists in Colombia. A total of 547 Colombian unionists have been assassinated in this country in the last 8 years, 32 of them in 2010.
The President of the union organisation Tarsicio Mora said that the majority of these crimes continue without being investigated, and they sought to accelerate the judicial process.
The CUT attributes the majority of the killings to a campaign of extermination against the Colombian union leadership, and in their judgement promotes ultra right paramilitaries in various zones of this Andean country.
Medellin is a city noted for the collapse of the politics of democratic security, the high incidence of urban violence, the continuing presence of of criminal bands, and the actions of paramilitaries in the service of narcotraffickers.
