Colombia - SIMANA member Orlando de Jesús Caicedo Madroñero murdered

Orlando de Jesús Caicedo Madroñero worked as a teacher at El Cancino education centre and had been a member of the teachers’ union of Nariño, SIMANA, for 23 years. The teacher, who had taken part in the Movimiento de Integración Regional (MIR) and various activities organised by trade union and campesino organisations, was killed by armed men on motorbikes, on 17 November 2017, in the municipality of Samaniego, in Nariño.