Death Threat
to Colombian
Trotskyist
Socorro Ramirez, leader of the Partido Socialista Revolucionario, Colombian section of the Fourth International and a recent candidate for the regional assembly of Bogota on the Democratic Union slate, has received a death threat from the ultra-rightist death squad, Muerte a los secuestradores (Death to the Kidnappers a paramilitary group linked to the police dedicated to "fighting terrorism").
Ramirez, who previously has been a presidential candidate of the PSR, received a funeral wreath from the MAS at her home.
This death threat came at the same time as those against Dr. Alfredo Vasquez Carrisoza, president of the Permanent for the Defense of Human Rights; Senator Humberto Criales; defense lawyer for various political prisoners, Miguel Antonio Cano; and priest Alejandro Angulo Novoa, director of the Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular (CINEP).
The MAS recently claimed responsibility for the murder of Dr. Luis Enrique Cipaguate Galvez, a lawyer who had defended political prisoners.
The Colombian government has done nothing to curb the activities of the
North.
thing possible to assure that the desire of MAS, who openly boast to having ties The people who are circulating this petition are the same ones who less than a year ago acclaimed Menahem Begin when he boasted that he was going to wipe out the Syrian missiles in Lebanon in a few hours. The sentiments that the inhabitants of these northern communities are expressing in a direct and active way are 20 the working masses for peace is translated into a mass movement against war and the occupation. for the movements that are mobilizing against the occupations and warlike maneuvers but are still relatively small and isolated from the working masses is to
The threats against Socorro Ramirez were widely reported in the Colombian mass media. Articles appeared in regional newspapers such as Vanguardia Liberal of Santander and El Colombiano of Medellin, as well as over the wires of Col-