Ever Luis Marin Rolong is one of the 73 Colombian labor activists have been executed in the three years since the Labor Action Plan promised to protect unionists from such killings.
Six bullets ripped through the 46-year-old’s body as he stepped off a bus for his afternoon shift at a brewery in the northern Colombian city of Soledad. … Like many others, Marín Rolong’s death underscores what labor rights groups say is a defect of free trade agreements in general: They have clear enforcement mechanisms to deal with trade violations, but when it comes to labor rights enforcement, these pacts lack teeth.