The recent killing of Jorge Ortega García, vice president of the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), Trade Union Congress, after he was subject to a long campaign of death threats, has raised concern for the safety of the following other members of the national trade union leadership who have all recently been subject to similar death threats: Hector Fajardo, Tarcisio Mora, Gabriel Alvis, Jesús Bernal, Alexander López, Over Dorado, Rafael Baldoviano, Rafael Piña, Segundo Mora, Alvaro Pulido and Olimpo Cárdenas.
