Another nurse union leader murdered in targeted assassination

Sat, 09/18/2010 - 10:12 — by Adrienne Pine 
Note: This is translated
 from El Tiempo, and as is common in that newspaper, even though its reporting is leagues ahead of all the other major newspapers (the ones that sponsored the coup), the fact of targeted assassinations of resistance leaders is minimized in reporting, substituted instead with unconvincing rhetoric of generalized "insecurity" and common crime. Keep that in mind as you read about this latest, atrocious murder of a nurse and union leader who stood up to the U.S.-supported military usurpation of her democracy.


President of SITRAIHSS is murdered


SAN PEDRO SULA.- The president of the Union of Workers of the Honduran Institute of Social Security (SITRAIHSS), Juana Bustillo, died last night after being shot at last night by an individual in the El Roble neighborhood.


Her work colleagues stated that Bustillo, 49 years old, had been meeting until 7:30pm at the IHSS headquarters with other union activists.


She left the building with two people, a man and a woman, in a red pickup truck that she was driving.


She drove north on the boulevard and entered the El Roble neighborhood at the second exit, and parked at a mini-supermarket.


Immediately a subject approached and shot three bullets directly at her. He then ran away to a beige getaway car that had parked behind the pickup truck, in which he fled.


The two people who were with her drove her back to the IHSS hospital in the same vehicle that she had been driving, less than a kilometer away in a straight line on the Boulevard of the North.





Juana Suyapa Bustillo was 49 years old.


The patient was admitted to the emergency department in the middle of a heart attack and was brought in that state to the surgeon, where her state worsened. She was declared clinically dead at 8:30pm, according to the attending doctor doctor Carlos Umaña.


The doctor explained that Bustillo had received three bullet wounds, two to the thorax. One of the bullets punctured her aorta, and that had been the cause of her death.


A son of Bustillo's arrived at the IHSS, and upon being informed of her passing burst into unconsolable tears and had to be taken aside by his mother's work colleagues.


In the hallways the nurses and doctors commented with great concern on the tragic death and lamented the climate of insecurity that is ending the lives of productive people.


They explained that Juana Bustillo had been working at the IHSS for 20 years and had been a union leader for 11.


ANTECEDENTS
On February 3, 2010, Vanessa Janeth Zepeda Alonso, a 29 year old nurse who worked in an IHSS hospital in Tegucigalpa and also member of SITRAIHSS was murdered.


This July 16, the head of purchasing for the Honduran Institute of Social Security and his family were shot at in the Jardines del Valle neighborhood.


On that occasion two criminals shot at the vehicle driven by Lenín Augusto Guevara, along with his wife Fátima Adela Soriano and daughter Andrea Guevara Soriano, barely three years old. The [wife] and the child died and he was wounded. It is assumed that the motive of the attack was robbery.



The vehicle in which the president of the IHSS union was transported was a red Dodge Caravan pickup truck, license plate PCS 3020.



The nurses of Social Security mourned the death of the union leader in the hallways.




Source: http://quotha.net/node/1190




Las enfermeras del Seguro Social lamentaban en los pasillos la muerte de la dirigente sindical.