Throughout the seventies, the struggle of the Colombian syndicalism reached significant levels, since the economic policies of governments during those years did not favor workers. During this time, the upward pricing policy of staples was consolidated and, while workers wages were stocked, the government in power refused to make a wage increase equivalent to the increase of the cost of living. The syndicalism protest in the country reached its peak with the realization of the national strike on September 14, 1977. This manifestation provoked nervousness in the political and armed forces of the country, who felt that the public order and the stability of the state institutions were under risk by the actions from the syndical movement. A month after the possession of the presidency of Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala in 1978 the Legislative Decree 1923 of September 6 of 1978, also known as Estatuto de Seguridad (Security Statute), was issued with the purpose of containing the syndical struggle in the country. With the Statute, the political and social control of the popular movement and especially of the syndical movement became more radical. With the operation of Decree 1923 of 1978 social protest is criminalized, democratic and syndicalism freedoms were restricted, the figure of political crime was removed and matched this with criminal crime, besides granting powers to the military to judgement civilians. The Security Statute opened a legal framework for the repression of the Colombian syndicalism and the arbitrary arrest against syndicalist leaders and activists. Additionally, the raid and threat were the most frequent abuses against human rights of syndicalist.