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Police Beat CUT Leader

Thousands of Colombian workers marked May Day by marching in major cities to protest neoliberal economic policies, high unemployment and paramilitary attacks against unionists. [El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 5/2/02 from AFP] During the march in the city of Cali, capital of Valle del Cauca department, police brutally beat Jesus Antonio Gonzalez Luna, a member of the National Executive Committee of the Unitary Workers Federation (CUT) and director of the CUT Human Rights Department. Gonzalez, who is also a member of the CUT-affiliated National Union of University Workers (SINTRAUNICOL), remains hospitalized in intensive care with a reserved diagnosis.

Gonzalez: head of CUT's Human Rights Department
In his work for the CUT Human Rights Department, Gonzalez Luna has been an effective communicator, sending out via email dozens of reports about murders and threats against CUT members. His messages were often posted on the Colombia Indymedia site at colombia.indymedia.org. [Communique from Domingo Rafael Tovar Arrieta, Director of the CUT Organization Department 5/2/02] From the Weekly News Update on the Americas (ISSN 1084-922X), published by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012, 212-674-9499, wnu@igc.org.
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