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Page 169 authorization for a small bottling plant: Jordan, 110; Domínguez, interview by the author.
CHAPTER 7. “SYRUPIN THE VEINS”
Page 172 sales languished over the years: Testimony of Richard I. Kirby, Oral argument and evidentiary hearing, April 22, 2005, SINALTRAINAL, et al. v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al., United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, 1:2001-cv-03208 (hereafter SINALTRAINAL v. Coke); William José Alberto Cruz Suarez deposition, Isidro Gil investigation, Fiscalía de la Nación, Unidad de Derechos Humanos, Radicado Preliminar No. 164, República de Colombia (hereafter Gil ), vol. 2, pp. 191-196. (Cruz was Bebidas’s lawyer in Colombia.)
Page 172 sectarian bloodletting . . . Manuel Marulanda: Robin Kirk, More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in Colombia (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 15-41; Steven Dudley, Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (New York: Routledge, 2004), 3-19.
Page 172 Fuerzas Armadas . . . Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: Kirk, 47-55; Dudley, 19.
Page 173 infiltrated the unions in the banana-processing plants: Dudley, 129.
Page 173 kidnapping and holding wealthy people: Kirk, 67.
Page 173 ELN “taxed” bottling plants: “Los paras contra Coca-Cola,” Cambio, February 8, 1999.
Page 173 rancher named Ramón Isaza: Joseph Contreras, “Paramilitary Patriarch,” Newsweek, September 6, 1999.
Page 173 they began killing FARC and ELN “tax collectors”: Kirk, 102-125; Dudley, 73. Page 173 increasingly brutal massacres: Dudley, 19, 71-73.
Page 173 paramilitaries . . . declared illegal: Kirk, 125-128.
Page 173 Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia: Kirk, 141-177.
Page 174 the brutal Freddy Rendón Herrera: David Adams, “Colombia Shaken As Paramilitary Leaders Testify,” St. Petersburg Times, June 18, 2007.
Page 174 ordering the deaths of three thousand: “‘H.H.’ se confiesa,” El spectador, August 2, 2008; “Ex-Paramilitary Chief in Colombia Admits to Atrocities,” Agence France Presse, August 3, 2008.
Page 174 decapitated a boy in front of the crowd: Kirk, 195; Joshua Hammer, “Mayor with a Mission,” Newsweek, April 21, 1997; Tom Boswell, “Leading a City That Has Become a Battlefield,” National Catholic Reporter, January 24, 1997.
Page 174 cut off the head of an elderly man: Adams, “Colombia Shaken As Paramilitary Leaders Testify.”
Page 174 bottling plant in Carepa was struggling: Luis Hernán Manco Monroy and Oscar Giraldo Arango, interviews by the author.
Page 174 SINALTRAINAL began to organize workers: Alejandro García, lawyer for SINALTRAINAL, interview by the author; William José Alberto Cruz Suarez deposition, Gil 2:191-196.
Page 174 workers can be fired at will: Alejandro García, interview by the author.
Page 175 Manco simply disappeared: Manco, interview by the author.
Page 175 Two weeks later, it was Giraldo’s turn: Giraldo, interview by the author.
Page 175 shot while drinking on his front stoop: Gómez death certificate, Gil 1:82; letter from Luz Marina Cifuentes Cataño, March 31, 1997; Gil 1:108-109.
Page 175 seeing Milan socializing with local paramilitaries: Complaint (1), SINALTRAINAL v. Coke, 20; Manco and Giraldo, interviews by the author.
Page 175 “sweep away the union”: Complaint, SINALTRAINAL v. Coke (1), 19; Luís Adolfo Cardona Usma deposition, Gil 2:181-187.
Page 175 “hasn’t been destroyed”: Hernán Manco, amplification of deposition, Gil 1: 283-291; Manco, interview by the author.
Page 176 protesting Milan’s associations: Letter from Javier Correa to Bebidas y Alimientos de Urabá, September 27, 1995, included as exhibit B to original complaint (1), SINALTRAINAL v. Coke.
Page 176 negotiating a new labor contract: List of worker demands, November 22, 1996, Gil 2:226-230.
Page 176 Born in a small town . . . thrived at the plant: Martín Gil, interview by the author.
Page 176 argued for a workers’ compensation payment: Report, Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación (hereafter CTI) Apartadó, June 18, 1997, Gil 1:269-279; Ariosto Milan Mosquera deposition, Gil 4:16-21.
Page 176 crack of a pistol rang out behind