:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/V76W6S3XL2KEYZESIOV43RQJBE.jpg "A sugar worker debates between life and death after the attack in Santander de Quilichao (Cauca)")
And A new act of violence against sugar workers was reported on Wednesday February 15, on this occasion in the municipality of Santander de Quilichao, in the north of the department of Cauca.
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It is a security official who was shot while carrying out his surveillance work in the El Recuerdo sector, reported in a press release, Association of Sugar Cane Producers (Asocaña).
“He was approached by four strangers who were traveling on motorcycles, who demanded that he identify himself with his name, his function and the factory to which he belongs. Following these intimidations, the criminals they attempted the life of our worker by shooting him in the face, shoulder and chest, leaving him seriously injured and steal his vest, his endowment weapon and his motorbike (sic)”, they assured.
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Later they transferred him to a care center in Cali where he is debating between life and death due to the severity of the injuries sustained.
in the sugar guild They recalled that this attack on the security supervisor comes 10 days after the assassination of two sugar factory workers in the municipality of Padilla.
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“The recurrence of attacks against workers in the sugar cane agro-industrial sector must be addressed immediately by the national government and the competent authorities. These events violate workers’ rights and create a climate of fear in the region, where more than 50,000 people derive their livelihood (sic),” they added.
The same appeal was made by one of the representatives of those people who are engaged in the production of sugar in the west of the country.
“We demand our rights from the national government, that’s the only thing we do. Ask for our rights and guarantees rights so that we can work in peace and that this kind of thing does not happen: murders, threats, there are injured compañeros”, one of the workers’ spokespersons told the Noticias Caracol television news.
Also in Asocana They asked the speed of the authorities in the investigations to establish who are the authors and bring them to justice.
“We reiterate the urgent appeal to the authorities to take concrete and immediate measures to guarantee the safety of workers and the communities of this region of the country and once again we call on the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation to act quickly in the territory and to open investigations to identify and prosecute those responsible of these facts,” the letter concludes.
The previous act of violence against sugar production workers occurred on Monday 6 February. at the Ukrania farm, dedicated to the production of sugar cane in a rural area between the municipalities of Padilla and Corinto. There they not only murdered two of them, but also two others were injured and another abducted.
According to a press release from the Incauca company, It was not the first time that this property was attacked by groups who wanted to keep it illegally, but on this occasion it was the most serious since they attacked with firearms.
“This is the most serious in a series of attacks on the integrity of workers, added to other attacks such as the burning of crops, the destruction of machinery and installations on different properties that have been invaded. Incauca rejects the attacks on private property that have taken place since December 2014, and which have escalated in their violence, leading to today’s tragedy which mourns two families.” affirmed the ingenuity through a statement.
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