General

�The Profits of Extermination� Colombian Author/Union Leader Francisco Cuellar

Tuesday, 14 December 2004
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Francisco Ramirez Cuellar is president of Sintraminercol, the Colombian mining worker�s union. His union has taken a leading role in the struggle against privatization of Colombia'�s mineral resources, in exposing the abuses of multi-national corporations in the mining and energy sector, and in pressing for legislative reform to return some of the profits of the mining sector to the country. The union has been active in the defense of the rights of indigenous and Afro-Colombian people displaced by mining and energy projects and in environmental issues, as well as labor issues. He is author of La Gran Minera en Colombia: Las Ganancias del Exterminio,� soon to appear in English as �The Profits of Extermination: How US Corporations are Destroying Colombia.� He has been brought to the US in the face of increasing threats and a close attempt on is life.

Location:
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Avenue
Boston's South End

URL: http://www.lucyparsons.org