U.S. union organizer murdered in El Salvador. Secy Powell urged to act.

[Lefty48197]

http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0412/27/A07-42584.htm

"In a letter to Powell, James P. Hoffa, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said Soto was killed by "what appears to be a death squad" and called the Salvadoran government's response to the crime "anemic." The high-profile murder has drawn widespread comparisons to the killings in 1981 of two land reform advisers with the AFL-CIO in El Salvador. That crime, blamed on right-wing vigilantes, remains one of the most shocking incidents of a turbulent era in the region."

"Seventy-two Republican and Democratic members of Congress recently signed a letter to Powell pressing for an investigation of Soto's killing.

Labor officials estimate that about 5 percent of El Salvador's 2.5 million workers are unionized, a sharp decline from about 15 percent when peace accords were signed in 1992 after a decade-long civil war between leftist guerrillas and the U.S.-backed government."

Please don't tell the Bush administration that death squads can cause a sharp decline in worker unionization rates.

[Benhurst]

1. Guess who is probably behind this. NT

[Lefty48197]

2. "not sure", but I'll bet they used U.S. supplied weapons to kill him

thank you Ronald Reagan for selling so many weapons to so many enemies of America. <end of sarcasm>