Costa Rican police invade the ports; SINTRAJAP union General Secretary Ronaldo Blear Blear speaks on the right.
This 10-minute Costa Rican news segment shows dozens of police officers descending on SINTRAJAP union dockworkers and their community supporters who are protesting APM Terminals’ concession — a concession that gives the terminal operator a monopoly that SINTRAJAP leaders say will destroy good union jobs and important social services in Costa Rica’s poorest and most diverse province of Limon. Though the segment is in Spanish, many things are clear: police tearing a man off his motorcycle, herding workers into white vans, and entering the docks by the dozens.
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Policia y APMT