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Escalating anti-union violence in Guatemala has claimed three banana workers involved in union organizing in the past year. Most recently, Izabal Banana Workers Union (SITRABI) member Enrique Cruz Hernandez was shot while on his lunch break.

The plantations where the men worked and organized are owned by subsidiaries of Del Monte. Despite tight security on the banana plantations, little information has come out about the murders.

The killings came on the heels of a conference in Guatemala convened by the International Trade Union Confederation that addressed pervasive impunity for violence against union members.

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