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Interview: Despite escalating assassinations, Colombian farmworker union fights for the right to the land The situation has recently gotten even worse in Colombia—already the world’s most dangerous place to be a union member. Right now social movement leaders, union members, and participants in the peace process are being killed at a rate of more than one victim per day. With the restrictions and curfews related to the coronavirus, death squads can more easily find their targets at their homes, and have even massacred entire families. One of the labor organizations that has suffered...
FENSUAGRO, the National Federation of Agricultural Unions, was created to unite the labor movement and the farmworkers' movement. Photo: Alliance for Global Justice, cropped from original. The situation has recently gotten even worse in Colombia—already the world’s most dangerous place to be a union member. Right now social movement leaders, union members, and participants in the peace process are being killed at a rate of more than one victim per day. With the restrictions and curfews related to the coronavirus, death squads can more easily find their targets at their homes, and have eve...