Colombia: Murder and Impunity

• More trade unionists have been murdered in Colombia in the last six years than in the rest of the world combined.
• In 2008, 49 trade unionists were murdered, a 25% increase from 2007. Through November 2009, more than 2,700 trade unionists have been assassinated in the last two decades.
• Virtually no one is prosecuted or convicted for these murders, with approximately a 96% impunity rate.
• Colombia is the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid outside of the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan, with more than 60% of aid going to the Colombian military.
• Colombia and the U.S. have signed a Free Trade Agreement that is now pending in Congress.

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