Mexican labor organizer tortured, murdered

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Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>

>
>http://www.thismodernworld.com/
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>On April 9, the bound and beaten body of 29-year-old labor organizer
>Santiago Rafael Cruz was discovered at the Mexico City headquarters
>his employer, the Foreign Labor Organizing Committee. (FLOC)
>
>Facing South has an an exclusive report on the murder, which many fear
>was retribution for attempting to organize agricultural guest workers
>across borders. Facing South has learned that Rafael Cruz's body bore
>signs of torture and that he had been harassed and threatened prior to
>his murder. Yet police are investigating the death as a common crime,
>or an internal union power struggle.