Union Groups Want DIS To
Hand Over Files and Be Dissolved
The public workers union, the Asociación Nacional de Empleados
Públicos y Privados (ANEP) and the Central Social Juanito Mora
Porras, is organizing a march for Thursday, March 05, at 10am, to
ask the Dirección de Inteligencia y Seguridad (DIS) that any Costa
Rican is who in file with the intelligence service can obtain their
file.
Albino Vargas, secretary general of the ANEP, no one is sure how
many people are on file with the DIS, as it has spied on, pursued
and violated the privacy of many people in the span of the years.
The DIS is located in the La Sabana across the street from
McDonalds.
Vargas believes that many who have participated in marches and
social movements during the last 20 years have an open file with the
DIS.
The union leaders considers this a violation of individual rights
and the country's political constitution. "People have been treated
as if they were terrorists", said Vargas.
The march is for both social groups to hand over a document to the
DIS demanding that all files be made available. The social groups
say they will also call on legislators to dissolve the secret police
organization.
Vargas said that the ministro de la Presidencia, Rodrigo Arias, who
is the ultimate power of the DIS, should give people an account of
all the orders issued during the protest demonstrations of the Free
Trade and Referendum.
Vargas compared the DIS to the East German communist police. |
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