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Coca-Cola Has Ties to Colombian Paramilitaries
“I have a feeling that I’m not just being targeted by the paramilitaries” said Luis Adolfo Cardona, a Colombian trade unionist speaking at Spirit of the Lakes Church in South Minneapolis. “But also by Coca-Cola, who is the one paying them.”
Coca-Cola Has ties to Colombian paramilitaries
...Adolfo Cardona is the only one talking about it
by Colin Keith Thomsen
“I have a feeling that I’m not just being targeted by the paramilitaries” said Luis Adolfo Cardona, a Colombian trade unionist speaking at Spirit of the Lakes Church in South Minneapolis. “But also by Coca-Cola, who is the one paying them.”
Cardona used to work for the Coca-Cola Company at the Carepa bottling plant, one of 22 that the corporation operates through independent franchises in Colombia.
In 1996 Cardona and his family had to flee their province, called Antioquia, after he escaped from the paramilitary mercenaries who had kidnapped and planned to kill him for his involvement in a union campaign at the Coke plant. After years in hiding in Colombia, Cardona and his family are safe in the United States—for now—while he makes a national speaking tour, talking about his own experiences and calling for a boycott against Coca-Cola...to read more click here: http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=694
...Adolfo Cardona is the only one talking about it
by Colin Keith Thomsen
“I have a feeling that I’m not just being targeted by the paramilitaries” said Luis Adolfo Cardona, a Colombian trade unionist speaking at Spirit of the Lakes Church in South Minneapolis. “But also by Coca-Cola, who is the one paying them.”
Cardona used to work for the Coca-Cola Company at the Carepa bottling plant, one of 22 that the corporation operates through independent franchises in Colombia.
In 1996 Cardona and his family had to flee their province, called Antioquia, after he escaped from the paramilitary mercenaries who had kidnapped and planned to kill him for his involvement in a union campaign at the Coke plant. After years in hiding in Colombia, Cardona and his family are safe in the United States—for now—while he makes a national speaking tour, talking about his own experiences and calling for a boycott against Coca-Cola...to read more click here: http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=694
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