Colombia: fascist attack against university professor
The day 4 Sara Fernández Moreno was attacked in her home, a knife pierced a lung.
Sara is a professor at the University of Antioquia and secretary of the board of the Association of Professors of the University of Antioquia (Asoproude). She is currently hospitalized for the attack suffered.
How we denounce from the LIS, on Monday 2 March, the fascist group Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia had spread a death threat directed at various organizations and university activists in Medellín, including the Asoproudea union to which Fernández belongs and colleagues from the Colombian section of the LIS.
The one of 2 of March was the third threat of this type in a year involving colleagues our, and the attack on Fernández's life represents a dangerous jump in the activity of these paramilitary gangs. This cowardly action and criminal feeds on the policy of persecution and intimidation of the national government of Iván Duque and local governments such as that of the mayor of Medellín Daniel Quintero Calle against the university movement, that comes from star in a year of great struggles in defense of education and against politics neoliberal government, and a historic general strike together with the working class colombian.
we do responsible for the safety of Fernández and that of all the activists threatened, to the national government of Duque, to the municipal government of Quintero Street and the university authorities. We demand the trial and punishment of the materially and intellectually responsible for the attack against Fernández and that investigate the range of fascist threats. We redouble our international campaign solidarity with threatened Colombian organizations and activists and we call all human rights organizations, unions and student organizations, organizations and personalities of the left and democratic institutions to repudiate fascist attacks and threats and to surround solidarity with Colombian colleagues.
