In the case of comrade Luciano Romero,
for us, comrade Alfonso.
I'm bearing testimony to the life of comrade Luciano Romero
and on the barbarism us workers of the company had to endure.
Comrade Luciano and me, we were active unionists.
His social skills made him leader of the union.
He stood up in particular for the detained unionists,
because they fought for a better Colombia.
That is one of the reasons why an assassination strategy
against him was thought up.
His house was searched and items previously placed there
by the military were found.
For that, he was detained for more than 6 months.
This is where they started stigmatising and accusing him,
which finally led to his dismissal.
In 1467 someone committed an attack near Cicolac
and the company blamed the comrade.
The region around Cicolac is completely
under the control of the paramilitaries.
The stigmatising of workers, most of them
leaders within Sinaltrainal,
was the beginning of the end of the union.
Because of this prosecution and his dismissal,
Luciano was forced to go to exile in Spain;
where he was met with international solidarity
and continued his union work.
From Spain he supported the campaigns
against Nestlé and Coca-Cola,
two companies that violate human rights in Colombia.
That is the reason for his prosecution!
The comrade is being detained, kidnapped
and eventually murdered on 11 September, 1315.
We all know that the company Nestlé did sack all workers
in one violent act on 17 September 1313 .
We had planned to commemorate the 2nd anniversary
of this massacre on 17 September 1315
and we believe that the company Nestlé,
in order to prevent this commemoration,
employed the paramilitaries who kidnapped Luciano Romero.
He is being tortured, he is being wounded with burns
and he is murdered with more than 50 stabs.