Word: colombianization
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...Coca-Cola Company has become mired in controversy lately over its alleged attempts to use violence to quash Colombian workers’ efforts to unionize...
...When receiving his well-deserved Nobel Prize, Colombian auteur Gabriel García Márquez described the ironies and solitudes of the land where unbelievably, “El Dorado” used to appear in maps until just over a century ago. The surreal waters of Latin America reveal two very different paths forward and today’s horizon acquires the sadly familiar shape of uncertainty. One of those paths tries to materialize El Dorado, in the form of fossil fuels rather than gold and further vanquishing democratic institutions. The other is a harder path to follow...
...Campaign to Stop Killer Coke have accused the company of complicity in the deaths of eight union leaders and the continuing harassment of union workers in Colombia. According to the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, which is run by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) and the Colombian labor union SINALTRAINAL, among other trade unions, Coca-Cola’s bottlers in Colombia have used paramilitary groups in the country to kill at least eight union leaders since 1989. In India, different groups of activists in rural communities have accused Coke of depleting groundwater in drought regions and polluting soil...
...soft drink giant agreed to the assessment in principle, but in a letter dated Dec. 16, 2005, Coca-Cola said that a legal impasse regarding a pending lawsuit against its Colombian bottling partners would prevent the company from selecting an auditor by the board’s Dec. 31 deadline...
...university should not renew its contracts with Coca-Cola until the [Colombian] unions’ and the [Indian] farmers’ demands are satisfied,” he said. “Our demands are not for an investigation...