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Please take a minute today to send an email to the President of Mexico.

One year ago, on April 9, 2007, Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), was found bound and beaten to death in the group’s Monterrey, Mexico, office. FLOC had opened an office in Monterrey next to the U.S. Consulate in 2005 to help members coming to North Carolina as guest workers in processing their visas, to fight corruption in the recruitment process and to develop leaders and train members. The office previously had been the target of break-ins with files and equipment destroyed. Cruz, 29, who worked for FLOC for more than four years in the United States, had headed up the Monterrey office for less than a month when he was murdered.

One year after the assassination of Santiago Rafael, the government of Nuevo Leon has not been able to show clearly what happened and has clearly demonstrated that it is not serious in investigating who is behind his vicious murder. Without a resolution of the murder, the FLOC staff and members cannot feel safe, as is the intent of the protective order of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Please send an email letter today to the President of Mexico. Ask him to have the Government of Mexico take over the investigation of the murder of Santiago Rafael Cruz, which it is entitled to do in a human rights case.

Note: FLOC is an organizational member of Central Indiana Jobs with Justice. Ken Barger of Indianapolis, who has worked with FLOC many years, has been travelling back and forth to Mexico in recent months as part of his continuing support for FLOC and its members.