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26 July, 2005
The president of the Cartagena region of oil workers union USO in Colombia escaped injury 14 May when four heavily armed men on two motorcycles fired on him. Jorge Ortega was riding in an automobile with his family in Cartagena when the attack occurred. Bodyguards of Ortega exchanged gunfire with the assailants.
USO blames the national government for not providing the necessary measures to protect trade union leaders, as well as not taking necessary action to curb right-wing paramilitaries in their “political and social genocide.”