Colombia - Attacks on USO Cartagena leaders during day of protest

On 27 February 2017, during a day of protest by subcontracted workers in the oil industry over job insecurity and arbitrary pay cuts, leaders of the Cartagena branch of the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO), Alexander Escobar, Wilmar Hernández and Rodolfo Vecino, were denied access to the Cartagena refinery and were assaulted by riot police.

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