New probe sought in slaying of Teamster

The Teamsters Union called for a new investigation Monday into the 2004 murder of a Cliffside Park labor leader in El Salvador after a jury there acquitted two of three people charged in his death.
The verdict, reached Saturday, bolsters claims that Teamster Gilberto Soto was killed not in a domestic dispute but for trying to organize port drivers, union officials said.
"We feared all along that [the trial] was part of a coverup," said Ron Carver, Soto's friend and supervisor at the Teamsters' Port Division. "We never claimed to know who it was. What we did know was the government was rushing to judgment. We think this [the verdict] shows that."
Soto was shot dead Nov. 5, 2004, in front of his mother's house in Usulutan seven days after he arrived in El Salvador to investigate the working conditions for truck drivers. He was 49. Complete story here.........http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2ODgzOTgwJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==