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...chance to join forces with a union boycott of Coke led by Sinaltrainal, Colombia’s largest food and bottling union, the AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union. The protesters allege collusion between Coca-Cola and a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, which the U.S. State Department classifies as a terrorist organization, in the intimidation and assassination of union members in Coke bottling plants in Colombia...
...paramilitary troops entered a Coke bottling plant in Carepa, Colombia and murdered for Isidro Gil, a Sinaltrainal leader spearheading the fight for a new contract. Hours later, a paramilitary squad set fire to the Sinaltrainal offices in Carepa, and two days later gunmen entered the plant again and forced workers to terminate their union membership under threat of death. These stories are sickeningly commonplace in Colombia, the most dangerous place in the world for union members with 1,800 confirmed murdered over the last 12 years, and only five of those murders resulting in convictions...
...years ago, Sinaltrainal filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Coke and two of its bottlers, Miami-based Panamerican Beverages and the American-owned Bebidas y Alimentos of Colombia for the murder of Gil and eight other Sinaltrainal members since the early ’90s. Last year that court found that the suit could continue against the bottling plants—but not Coke, because it does not own the plants. The decision is under appeal...
...friend Lenore, a USAS staffer, recently got back from Colombia where she met with union leaders and saw for herself how bad the repression is—one of the people she talked to was killed later that night,” Elfenbein said...
...state if the peace process remained stalled. He denied accusations by President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the rebels are using the current truce as a cover to re-arm. Peace talks broke down last month when Kumaratunga said the government was making too many concessions to the Tigers. Hostage Handover COLOMBIA Leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) released two of the seven foreign tourists it had been holding hostage since Sept. 12, following church-mediated talks. The ELN pledged to free the remaining five hostages before Christmas. MEANWHILE IN SICILY ... He'll Get a Horse's Head A lawyer...