The offices of the Cali Municipal Workers Synidicate (Sintraemcali [5]), located in the center of the Colombian industrial city, was attacked with hurled incendiary bombs April 16, causing damage to the facade and plumbing of the building. Sintraemcali called the bombing a "terrorist attack," and pledged to file a complaint with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. The attack came five days after a judge in Bogotá ordered the president of the republic, Juan Manuel Santos, to issue a formal pardon to members of Sintraemcali, the Colombian University Workers Syndicate (Sintraunicol [6]) and the Bogotá Telecommunications Workers Synidate (Sintratelefonos [7]), who had been accused by former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez [8] of being linked to terrorist groups and constituting a "Brotherhood of Terrorism." (Radio Caracol [9], Etorno Inteligente [10], April 16)
Colombia remains the most dangerous country in the world [11] for unionists.
