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For the past decade, Colombia has been the most dangerous nation in the world to be a union leader.  Since 1986, nearly 4,000 union leaders have been killed.  This year, 44 Colombian union leaders have been assassinated and many more have detained on false charges. 

Miguel Fernandez, a Colombian union leader who traveled to the U.S. for six months last year in order to protect his life, has returned to Colombia and has now been charged with "fabricating" death threats against himself and his family.  We need you to fax the Colombian government to help protect his life and liberty.  Another organizer, José Vicente Otero, remains in jail.

Colombian Trade Unionists, including Hector Giraldo, the Secretary Treasurer of the Public Sector Union of Medellin (who participated in the same AFL-CIO protection program in 2003), have repeatedly said that "those letters, faxes, and calls make the difference between life and death".  Please do your part to act in solidarity with our Colombian brothers and sisters.