Author: CIFCA, FIDH, OBS, OMCT

Mr. Herman Van Rompuy
Permanent President of the European Union

Mrs. Catherine Ashton
High Representative of the European Union for Common and Foreign Security Policy

and Vice-President of the European Commission
Mr. Karel De Gucht
EU Trade Commissioner

Mr. Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Spanish Presidency of the EU

Cc Member States of the European Union

In follow up to the communication sent by CIFCA and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OBS), a joint program of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization against Torture (OMCT), on the 5th of February 2010, we would like to express our deep concern for the persisting climate of tension and violence in the region of San Marcos/Guatemala, occurring in the context of serious criticism against the procedures of the Spanish transnational enterprise Union FENOSA and its regional subsidiary agency, DEOCSA…

Mr. Herman Van Rompuy
Permanent President of the European Union
Mr. Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Spanish Presidency of the European Union
Ms. Catherine Ashton
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Mr. Karel de Gucht and Ms. Benita Ferrero Waldner
Trade Commissioners of the European Commission
C.C. Member States of the European Union

Furthermore, we deplore the lack of any effective replies by the Guatemalan State Authorities with regards to the investigation and persecution of those responsible. Moreover, we would like to draw the attention to the series of alarming violations suffered by human rights defenders and trade unionists due to their involvement in protests and denunciations against the affiliations of European transnational enterprises in the energetic field, notably the Spanish company Unión FENOSA in the Department of San Marcos…