Multiple death threats to labor union leaders and their families mark the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Colombia today. John Jairo Castro of the Port Workers’ Union, Wilson Ferrer, President of the CUT labor federation in Santander, Johnnson Torres Ortis of the sugar cane…
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The struggle for trade, labor, and racial justice in Colombia’s ports Witness for Peace is excited to bring Jhon Jairo Castro, the President of the Buenaventura chapter of the Portworkers Union, to Olympia Wednesday, October 23 at Traditions to share his experience as an Afro-Colombian labor leader in one of…