Word: cajamarca
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...anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services, a firm that Harvard employs. The campaign focuses on securing workers their legal right to unionize without fear of reprisal. A national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, Camilo A. Romero, translated a speech delivered by Gerrardo Cajamarca, a former Coke employee in Colombia who now works for the Colombian food and beverages workers union Sinal Trainal. Cajamarca charged that Coke-funded paramilitaries had assassinated eight Colomobian unionizers. Through Romero, Cajamarca said, “this is an effort to sew fear, sew terror in the hearts of these workers...
...under their own roofs. It is a complaint heard from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea: national governments make deals, and the locals get shortchanged. As a result, local protests are stalling at least 10 mining-investment projects in Peru that are worth $1.4 billion. In the northern town of Cajamarca, whose decade-old Yanacocha gold mine is the world's second largest, residents are loudly demonstrating against expansion plans by the mine's U.S. co-owner, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. (2002 revenues: $2.75 billion). Yanacocha mined 2.3 million oz. of gold last year and earned $700 million...
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