On the one-year anniversary of the National Independent Syndicate of Industrial and Service Workers/Sindicato Nacional Independiente de Trabajadores de Industrias y Servicios (SNITIS), Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, Governor of the State of Tamaulipas had Labor Attorney Susana Prieto Terrazas arrested on bogus charges. Prieto Terrazas lives in El Paso, Texas and works as a labor attorney in Mexico. She is the attorney for the National Independent Syndicate of Industrial and Service Workers/Sindicato Nacional Independiente de Trabajadores de Industrias y Servicios 20/32 (SNITIS). The SNITIS union represents maquiladora workers in Mexico.
Since the creation of the SNITIS Attorney Prieto Terrazas has experienced undue threats, intimidation and affronts to her character for the creation of the union and the support of workers. The American and transnational oligarchs and maquiladora industrialists have been furious with her activism around factories staying open during the pandemic and not following safe/healthy practices. American companies have also created a system which values production over lives and they also need to be held accountable.
We the undersigned demand that you release Attorney Prieto Terrazas and provide her with her rights to due process. We will do whatever it takes to ensure her fair treatment and safety under the law and humanitarian rights.