…On 3 March trade union president Ricardo Machado and treasurer Wilder Martínez, of the La Jagua de Ibírico Branch of the Colombian Union of Workers of the Mining, Petrochemical, Agro-Fuels and Energy Industries…were threatened...The two union leaders have been defending their union against lawsuits filed by the coal mining companies Carbones de La Jagua and Consorcio Minero Unido, both owned by multinational Glencore, regarding the legality of a strike Sintramienergetica held…[in] 2012 as well as…in 2011 and 2006. The union leaders had also campaigned to prevent the mining company from carrying out mining activities which they alleged would have had a negative impact on a river in the region…[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Prodeco/Glencore to respond; the company did not respond]