Francisco Ramírez Cuellar is President of the Colombian mining union Sintraminercol and a member of the Human Rights Team of Colombia's major labor federation, the CUT. Aviva Chomsky is Professor of Latin American history at Salem State College in Massachusetts. She has been active in Central America, Cuba, and Colombia solidarity work for several decades.
Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College. The author of several books, Chomsky has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights issues for over twenty-five years. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts.