Several Colombian civil society organizations, the October 26 at 5 pm they will take to the streets in Rome. The protest was organized on the occasion of the inauguration of an avenue named after Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Villa Borghese. In the historic Roman villa there will also be the vice president of Colombia Marta Lucía Ramírez. The government to which he belongs was condemned by the International American Tribunal of Human Rights for serious violations of human rights as part of the peaceful social protests that took place this year.
Colombia, in Rome the protest against Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez
Colombian civil society requires the vice-president and foreign minister to report to the international community, the European Union and Italy on the lack of commitment to guarantee peace, the protection of systematically violated human rights and the impunity in force in the country.
We also ask to clarify the case Mario Pacciola, the United Nations aid worker who lost his life in his home in San Vicente del Caguàn. Pacciola, here was engaged as an observer for compliance with the peace agreements in Colombia.
Protests are organized on the occasion of the X Conference Italy – Latin and Caribbean to be held in Rome on 25 and 26 October. During the trip to Rome, Ramirez will also participate in a business meeting with Italian companies. The meeting was organized at the Confindustria headquarters. To take part there will be several companies ready to invest in the South American country, the third largest economy in the continent behind Brazil and Mexico.
Italian parliamentarians, the call for the truth about Mario Pacciola
And on the occasion of Ramírez’s visit, some Italian parliamentarians launched an appeal referring to the murderer of Mario Pacciola. The statement states that “Italy must consider the deaths of Regeni and Pacciola on the same level”. The Italian government must therefore “take all possible actions to get to the truth and punish those responsible (…)”.
“Our government must make the vice president that Italy cannot entertain commercial or institutional relationships with governments that allow impunity for the mass killings of innocent people as happened in Colombia ”.
Among the signatories are the honorable Doriana Sarli, Simona Suriano, Matteo Mantero, Paola Nunges, Virginia La Mura, Yana Ehm and Guia Termini.