X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhRpTSAE0ndYxdYfPPT1cJuPBK0XowIVAIN7JRqsBbGpRLj3eNTBow9bnkV1 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:29:48 -0700 (MST) To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: La Ford y Argentina --WebTV-Mail-665611374-689 --WebTV-Mail-665611374-689 [207.79.35.92]) by postoffice-122.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/po.gso.24Feb98) [129.113.172.2]) by mailsorter-102.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) 15 Nov 1998 16:51:00 -0600 (CST) Approved-By: rvazquez@INCONNECT.COM Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:40:56 -0700 Reply-To: Hispanic Networking Sender: Hispanic Networking From: Robert Vazquez Subject: La Ford y Argentina To: LARED-L@LISTSERV.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 09:14:53 EST From: Raulmax@aol.com To: LARED-L@LISTSERV.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU Subject: La Ford y Argentina Saludos desde Borinquen April 2, 1998 Ford Motor Co Complicit in Argentina Torture According to "WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS", MARCH 29, 1998: Some Argentine workers who were disappeared under the military dictatorship were detained and tortured in a clandestine detention center at Ford Motor Company's factory in an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires, according to legal documents submitted on Mar. 16 in a Madrid court by union representatives of the Congress of Argentine Workers (CTA). The documents reveal that the victims were selected for detention, torture and execution in consultation with management at Ford's Argentine subsidiary, which provided the military with facilities in Ford's General Pacheco plant and even donated vehicles to transport prisoners to military prisons and torture centers. Evidence against the US automaker was presented as part of a 5,000-page report detailing dirty war repression against workers and union members. The case in Spain was initiated two years ago by relatives of some of the estimated 600 Spanish citizens who disappeared in Argentina during the military repression. The Spanish court has claimed the right to try the Argentine military leaders under international law, citing as precedent the prosecution of fugitive Nazi war criminals. The union document described the repression by Ford and other major Argentine companies as an attempt to "implement state terrorism and genocide with the objective of socially disciplining the working class and thereby obtaining a higher rate of profit..." Within a year after the junta seized power, Argentine wage levels were cut in half, all union contracts were suspended, factory committees were outlawed and tens of thousands of union activists were fired. --WebTV-Mail-665611374-689--