Krankenschwester in Bucaramanga ermordet

CARMEN ELISA NOVA HERNANDEZ, Mitarbeiterin im Büro der Gewerkschaft der
Beschäftigten in Kliniken und Hospitälern des Bezirks Santander (SINTRACLINICAS) wurde in der Nacht zum 16.Juli 2004 von zwei Männern auf einem Motorrad erschossen. In der internationalen (englischen) Protestnote von Carlos Rodriguez Diaz, dem Präsidenten der CUT Kolumbiens werden die GewerkschafterInnen aus aller Welt erneut zur Solidarität mit der besonders unterdrückten kolumbianischen Gewerkschaftsbewegung aufgerufen - insbesondere zur Teilnahme an der Internationalen Konferenz "SOS der WeltgewerkschafterInnen gegen die Vernichtung der kolumbianischen Gewerkschaftsbewegung", die vom 15. - 18. September 2004 in Bogota stattfinden wird:

NURSE MURDERED IN BUCARAMANGA

The wave of terror and extermination against the union movement does not stop, receiving new victims.

We record with indignation the murder of compañera CARMEN ELISA NOVA HERNANDEZ. She was an officer of the Clinics and Hospitals Workers Union of Santander ^SINTRACLINICAS. The assassination happened last night in a street of the district Provenza, Bucaramanga, Santander, by two hired assassins that were on a motorcycle DT125. They were of dark color, and apparently had been waiting for their victim from the 7:00 p.m., in a zone bordering to residential zone COOMULTRASAN.

The compañera leaves orphan to a girl of five years. The CUT expresses our deep condolences to the family of compañera CARMEN ELISA, and calls on the national and international union organizations to express their solidarity and maintain the fight in defense of the life and the right of association.

We energetically reject this execrable crime and we demand that the government makes a quick investigation, and that it equips the leaders of SINTRACLINICAS with the pertinent safety measures,since they are already being harassed and now face being murdered.

The CUT will continue in the defense of the interests of the workers and of a real State of Social Right. For this reason we call on our leaders to participate in the SOS OF WORLD TRADE UNIONISM AGAINST THE ANNIHILATION COLOMBIAN TRADE UNIONISM SINDICALISMO, that we hold in Bogotá, between the 15th and 18th of September 2004, and also to enthusiatically prepare for a NATIONAL STOPPAGE against government measures, in the last week of October.

Bogotá, D.C., 16th July 2004
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ DIAZ
President CUT

(Ins Englische übersetzt von der "Colombia Solidarity Campaign")