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Page 176 watched Gil’s head snap backward: Manco, interview by the author.
Page 177 ten bullets . . . outside the gate: Gil autopsy report, December 10, 1996 (Diligencia de Necropsia, No. UCH-NC-96-412), Gil 1:87; photographs of Gil’s body, Gil 1:243- 246. Neither the Coca-Cola Company nor its bottlers have ever denied that Gil was killed at the plant. In initial reports, the company claimed that he died outside the gates; however, in more recent interviews, including the author’s interview of Ed Potter, the company has conceded that he was killed inside the plant.
Page 177 Adolfo Cardona, ran to the body: Cardona, interview by the author; Cardona deposition, Gil 2:181-187.
Page 177 jumped on his own motorcycle . . . declare him dead: Gil, interview by the author.
Page 177 known as “El Diablo”. . . safety of the police station: Cardona, interview by the author; Cardona deposition.
Page 178 Bebidas would buy plane tickets: Manco and Giraldo, interviews by the author.
Page 178 paramilitaries were busy breaking into the union hall: Letter from Javier Correa and Hernán Manco to Fiscalía, Gil 1:52; CTI Antioquia report, October 5, 1998, Gil 1, unidentified page; Complaint (1), SINALTRAINAL v. Coke, 21.
Page 179 “That kid was murdered at the plant”: Manco, interview by the author.
Page 179 forty-five members signed letters or fled town: List prepared by Javier Correa, and resignation letters, Gil 2:100-150.
Page 179 wasn’t an isolated occurrence: Javier Correa, interview by the author.
Page 179 SINALTRAINAL is unapologetically militant: Lesley Gill, interview by the author; SINALTRAINAL, Una delirante ambición imperial (Bogotá: Universo Latino, 2003).
Page 180 nothing to say about the situation: Amplification of deposition of William José Alberto Cruz Suarez, Gil 2:216-220; Alejandro García, interview by the author.
Page 180 learned about the murder days after: Mark Thomas, Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola (New York: Nation Books, 2009), 351.
Page 180 fault of the paramilitaries: Detention order for Miguel Enrique Vergara Salgado, Gil 3:320-347.
Page 180 terminated for “abandoning their place of work”: Lesley Gill, “Labor and Human Rights: ‘The Real Thing’ in Colombia,” paper presented to the Human Rights Committee of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 28, 2004; amplification of deposition of William José Alberto Cruz Suarez, Gil 2:216-220.
Page 180 “You have to leave”: Manco, interview by the author.
Page 181 threatened him at gunpoint: Giraldo, interview by the author.
Page 181 “No, we do not drink”: Manco and Giraldo, interviews by the author.
Page 181 “Conducting business in the current environment”: Jeffrey Distler, Consumer Affairs Specialist, The Coca-Cola Company, to Ellie Mitchell, United Steelworkers Union, October 24, 2001.
Page 182 established a code of ethics: The Coca-Cola Company, Supplier Guiding Principles, http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/pdf/SGP_Brochure_ENG.pdf.
Page 182 investigation into Gil’s murder: Fiscalía General de la Nación, Unidad Nacional de Derechos Humanos, Radicado Preliminar No. 164 (Gil).
Page 182 identity of “Caliche”: CTI report, October 5, 1998, Gil 1: 205-206; Ariel Gómez death certificate, Gil 1:280.
Page 182 identified as Enrique Vergara: Letter from Gloria Correa Martínez, Unidad Nacional de Derechos Humanos, August 1998, Gil 1:163.
Page 182 henchman of El Alemán: CTI report, June 19, 1998, Gil 1:313-324; CTI report, undated, Gil 1:327-330.
Page 182 Multiple witnesses . . . hang out with them: José Joaquín Giraldo Graciano deposition, Gil 2:24-29; José Heriberto Sierra Renfigo deposition, Gil 2:30-36; Gudnara del Socorro Osorio deposition, Gil 2:41-46.
Page 182 Marín let the paramilitaries: Joaquín Giraldo deposition, Gil 2:24-29; José Heriberto Sierra Renfigo deposition, Gil 2:30-34; Humberto de Jesús Peña deposition, Gil 2:35-40.
Page 182 Milan had resigned: Ariosto Milan Mosquera to Richard Kirby Kielland, November 28, 1996, Gil 3:17.
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