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The Coca-Cola Killings of Union Activists
The Coca-Cola Killings:

Is Plan Colombia funding a bloodbath of union activists?

by David Bacon

After the leader of their union was shot down at their plant gate in late 1996, Edgar Paéz and his co-workers at the Coca-Cola bottling factory in Carepa, Colombia, tried for more than four years to get their government to take action against the responsible parties. Instead, some of the workers themselves wound up behind bars, while the murderers went free.

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