Salvador Unionist Reports on Increasing Repression

Salvadoran unionist Ricardo Calderon is the featured guest at Friday’s lunchtime discussion about the current struggles against privatization and the implementation of CAFTA, as well as the increasing repression directed at the labor movement in El Salvador. In recent months, reports Andrea Delgado of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), “union members have been intimidated and arrested for opposing the privatization of health care and water, and a union leader was murdered on July 18.” Calderon is a Salvadoran unionist who works for the Alumbrado Electric Company of San Salvador which, as a result of the Energy Industry's 1997 privatization, is now a subsidiary of the U.S. company AES. Calderon will also speak Friday night at St. Stephens Church.