11. Maj 2011: Generalsekretæren for rickshawchaufførernes fagforening Lorenzo Godoy Asencio blev forleden dag fundet myrdet. Dette er ikke første gang, at fagforeningsfolk er blevet slået ihjel. Endnu engang er landets arbejderklasse i sorg.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has joined with its Guatemalan affiliates in denouncing the murder of Lorenzo Godoy Asencio, general secretary of the tricycle taxi drivers’ union Sindicato de Tricicleros de la Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado and the transport workers’ union Sindicato de Trabajadores del Transporte y Similares de la Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, in Moyuta, Jutiapa.
The trade union leader disappeared on 2 May with his moto-taxi; he had left the house to buy bread for dinner and did not reappear. On seeing that he was not coming back, a search was launched the following day in the area bordering El Salvador. His body was found on Thursday 5 May in Aldea Los Angeles, showing stab wounds thought to have been inflicted with a screwdriver, found not far from where Lorenzo Godoy Asencio’s body and the moto-taxi he was driving were discovered, two hundred metres from the scene of the crime. This murder has once again plunged into mourning the workers of Guatemala.
The ITUC, in a letter to the president of Guatemala, called for a full and immediate investigation to ensure that those responsible for this crime are brought to justice without delay and punished with the full force of the law.
Læs videre: http://www.ituc-csi.org/guatemala-another-trade-unionist,9010.html?lang=en
