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The Coca-Cola killings: is plan Colombia funding a bloodbath of union activists? (Gazette).
American Prospect, The, January, 2002 by Bacon, David
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AFTER THE LEADER OF their union was shot down at their plant gate in late 1996, Edgar Paez 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.
Convinced that Colombian officials were unable or unwilling to bring the perpetrators to justice, they decided to go abroad for help. Accordingly, last July, the Colombian union Sinaltrainal, together with the United ...
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