General strike against the blood-bath
Heading off a visit to the South Korean dictatorship, Barco remained indifferent to the blood-bath. On August 26, the press published a list of 33 people of the most varied political and professional connections (the full list was said to contain a hundred names) who were the next targets of the rightist gangs. One of those named, Hector Abad Gómez, was murdered hours before the list was published. Jaime Pardo Leal was in the fourteenth spot, just after Hector Abad.
The October 13 general strike and the violent clashes with the police that followed the murder of Pardo Leal left eight people dead and dozens imprisoned in Botgotá, Barranquilla and Barrancabermeja. They shattered the govhopes that the population would remain apathetic while it pursued its policy of picking off left activists
The method of mass mobilization against the political murders was initiated on May 7 when people in the oil port of Barrancabermeja attacked public buildings following the murder of a 14year-old girl. She was shot in the back because the night before she had witnessed an unsuccessful murder attempt
In the latest protests in Bogotá, two police and three civilians died in stone throwing incidents. The iron gates of the Palace of Justice were torn down. This building is the sinister symbol of the official brutality that led to the slaughter of 95 people in November 1985, when the armed forces went on a rampage against an M-19 guerrilla unit that had occupied the premises.'
September, demonstrations have been increasing against the application of a blanket death penalty against the left. They have taken place in the context of what is called "The Right to Life Campaign." But the regime has not shown the slightest interest in altering the gruesome course of events. *
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October 26, 1987 • International Viewpoint
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The agenda at the Falun meeting included three points: the negotiations, the policy of economic distribution and
GRASSROOTS trade-union leaders and activists representing 200,000-300,000 workers met in Falun on