Colombia: Murder and Impunity

• More trade unionists have been murdered in Colombia in the last five years than in the rest of the world combined
• In 2007, 39 trade unionists were murdered, down from the 72 murdered in 2006 but increasing the total murdered since 1991 to over 2,200 workers
• Virtually no one is prosecuted for these murders, with less than 2% of murderers prosecuted and convicted
• Colombia is the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid outside of the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan, with about 65% of aid going to the Colombian military
• Colombian and the U.S. have signed a Free Trade Agreement that is now awaiting a Congressional vote.

USLEAP campaigns to end the killings of trade unionists and end impunity and to oppose current U.S. trade and aid policy toward Colombia.