Colombia - ASINTRACAMPIC member Fernando Asprilla murdered

On 9 August 2017, Fernando Asprilla, a member of the Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos de Piamonte Cauca (ASINTRACAMPIC), affiliated to FENSUAGRO, was murdered in the municipality of Piamonte, in Cauca. The campesino and union leader was a former president of the Communal Council of Vereda La Tigrera, and was a coordinator and representative of the social and political movement Marcha Patriótica.