Pedro Zamora Álvarez was a Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

n trade unionist. At the time of his death, he was the general secretary of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Empresa Portuaria Quetzal (the Puerto Quetzal

Puerto Quetzal

Puerto Quetzal is Guatemala's largest Pacific Ocean port. It is important for both cargo traffic and as a stop-off point for cruise liners.It is located in Escuintla department, alongside the city of Puerto San José, which it superseded as a port in importance to the country's maritime traffic...

 Dockers' Union, or STEPQ, an affiliate of the International Transport Workers' Federation

International Transport Workers' Federation

The International Transport Workers' Federation is a global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2009 the ITF had 654 member organizations in 148 countries, representing a combined membership of 4.5 million workers....

).
He was gunned down in the vicinity of Puerto Quetzal on 15 January 2007, in an attack in which his pick-up truck was riddled with 100 bullets and one of his children was also injured; he and other leaders of the union had received frequent anonymous death threats in the preceding months.

External links

• Campaign: ¡No a la impunidad! Justice for Pedro Zamora (International Transport Workers' Federation)
• Investigate the Murder of Pedro Zamora (Democracy in Action)
• Guatemala: Fear for safety/death threats (Amnesty International)
• Not In Vain - The Death Of Pedro Zamora (YouTube)