Rastrojos threaten Cali union leaders
Rastrojos threaten Cali union leaders
Sep 3, 2014 posted by Nicolas Bedoya
Unions and union leaders in Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, said Tuesday that they are receiving death threats from “Los Rastrojos,” one of the country’s most powerful neo-paramilitary forces.
The letter is signed by the urban commandos of the “Los Rastrojos” from “somewhere in Valle del Cauca,” the state of which Cali is the capital city.
The threat reads, “The Rastrojos reserve the right to continue the fight for a country free from scum like you that all you do is lie to the people, teaching them communist doctrine contrary to our ideals and the promises of the state that favor the most needy.”
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According to an interview by local media, Sintraine director, Jorge Ivan Velez, said “we reject these threats and will continue out righteous fight for the defense of the Valle del Cauca Patrimony represented by the public enterprises in Cali.”
Velez continues to point out the coincidence that immediately after a pacifist social movement that outlined the problems facing the city, they received these threats signed by the urban commandos of one of Colombia’s most dangerous drug trafficking neo-paramilitary groups.
http://colombiareports.co/union-leaders-threatened-liquidacion-colombias-third-largest-city/