Miguel Ángel Albizures

Miguel Ángel Albizures (born 1944)[1] is a Guatelamalan human rights activist and newspaper columnist. He is the spokesperson for the Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH) in Guatemala City. He has been the target of frequent death threats.

Albizures has held various leadership positions in Guatemalan human rights and labor organizations, including Director of Guatemala's Democratic Front Against Repression (FDCR), Director of the National Committee for Trade Union Unity (CNUS), and Secretary General of the National Worker's Central (CNT).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Levenson-Estrada, Deborah (1994). Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 84. ISBN 0-8078-2131-4.
  2. ↑ "Guatemala: The Repression of the Trade Union Movement" (PDF) (Press release). Council On Hemispheric Affairs COHA. 1981-02-17. Retrieved 2008-06-17.


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