Colombia assassinates union leader and former FARC member in the same week.
The assassinations of political opponents by the Colombian government have been the main point of crisis in the country, leading to numerous protests against Duque.
DCO - The Unified Workers' Central of Colombia reported the death of Alexis Vergara, a sugarcane cutter who was murdered earlier this week in the department of Cauca.
Vergara was a union delegate and was only 24 years old, the son of the president of the General Confederation of Workers.
The CUT (Unified Workers' Central) denounced this as a direct threat against union work and stated that the government of fascist president Iván Duque is doing nothing to protect the lives of workers.
Since the beginning of the year, 14 social leaders and human rights defenders have been murdered in this Colombian state.
On the other hand, in the department of Sucre, Edwin de Jesús Carrascal Barrios, a former guerrilla fighter of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was executed in cold blood last night [Wednesday] (10), in the municipality of Colosó.
He was taken to the hospital by ambulance but did not survive the gunshots, allegedly inflicted by two men on a motorcycle who knocked on his door and then managed to escape from the police.
Hundreds of former FARC members, who after the 2017 peace agreement with the Colombian government became the Revolutionary Alternative Force of the Common party, have been assassinated in recent years. This, along with the almost daily murder of social activists, turns Colombia into a gigantic extermination camp for opponents of the far-right puppet regime of imperialism that has been in power for decades.