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Page 182 not only for Cepillo, but for Marín and Milan as well: Arrest warrants, February 10, 1999, Gil 2:233-250.
Page 183 “leaves not the slightest doubt”: Orders for preventive detention, September 2, 1999, Gil 3:219-247.
Page 183 declared their innocence . . . collaborating with guerrillas himself: Ferenc Alain Legitime Julio (Milan’s lawyer), undated letter, Gil 3:267-278; Ariosto Milan Mosquera deposition, Gil 4:16-21; Rigoberto Marín Restrepo deposition, Gil 4:22-26; Rigoberto Marín Restrepo amplification of deposition, Gil 4:124-130.
Page 183 it didn’t have sufficient evidence: Decision, June 19, 2000, Gil 4:153-161.
Page 183 typical of the Colombian justice system: Dora Lucy, interview by the author.
Page 183 fewer than a hundred convictions: Human Rights Watch, World Report 2009—Colombia, January 14, 2009.
Page 183 public backlash: Human Rights Watch, “Attorney General Reno in Colombia, March 3-4,” Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, March, 3, 1999.
Page 184 arrested General Alejo del Río: Human Rights Watch, “A Wrong Turn: The Record of the Colombian Attorney General’s Office,” Colombia 14, no. 3(B) (2002).
Page 169 sacked the head of the Human Rights Unit: Human Rights Watch, “A Wrong Turn,” 2.
Page 184 “Osorio did severe damage”: Adam Isacson, interview by the author.
Page 184 bases near Coca-Cola bottling plants: Steven Dudley, “War in Colombia’s Oil-fields,” The Nation, August 5, 2002.
Page 184 met with AUC head Carlos Castaño: “Los paras contra Coca-Cola,” Cambio, February 8, 1999.
Page 185 “I don’t think it’s valid”: Maria McFarland, interview by the author.
Page 186 profits of $10 million a year: David J. Lynch, “Murder and Payoffs Taint Business in Colombia,” USA Today, October 30, 2007.
Page 186 company insisted . . . banana plantations of Urabá: Sibylla Brodzinsky, “Chiquita Case Puts Big Firms on Notice,” Christian Science Monitor, April 11, 2007.
Page 186 “Simply put”: David J. Lynch, “Murder and Payoffs Taint Business in Colombia,” USA Today, October 30, 2007.
Page 186 “peace and justice” law: “The Perils of ‘Parapolitics,’ ” The Economist, March 23, 2007.
Page 186 “The companies that benefited”: “‘H.H.’ se confiesa,” El spectador, August 2, 2008.
Page 186 arrangement with Chiquita as well as Dole: José Gregorio Mangones Luno affidavit, October 29, 2009, Does (1-44) v. Chiquita Brands International Inc. et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 9:2008cv80465; Charlie Cray, “Hiring Death Squads Is Coming Back to Haunt U.S. Companies,” AlterNet, February 16, 2010; Juan Smith, “Colombia; Ex-Paramilitary Implicates Two U.S. Companies in Murder of Trade Unionists,” North American Congress on Latin America, December 14, 2009.
Page 186 Raúl Hasbún . . . ordering the deaths: “Las confesiones de Raúl Hasbún,” Semana, October 4, 2008, English version.
Page 187 Isidro Gil . . . “collecting money for the guerrillas”: Steven Dudley, “Colombian Paramilitary Tells How He Financed His Own Murder Inc.: Bananas,” Miami Herald, March 21, 2009.
Page 187 Magdalena Medio . . . hundreds of bodies: Dudley, 41-43, 65; Kirk, 110, 125.
Page 187 Barrancabermeja was outside their control: Dudley, 18-19, 123.
Page 187 “The threats started in 2001”: Juan Carlos Galvis, interview by the author.
Page 188 SINALTRAINAL had nearly two thousand members: William Mendoza, interview by the author.
Page 188 expanding throughout other South American countries: Panamerican Beverages Inc., Annual Report, 2003.
Page 188 acquired a 10 percent share . . . “anchor bottler”: Panamerican Beverages Inc., Annual Report, 2003; “Panamerican Beverages and Panamco LLC Historical Timeline,” submitted as exhibit to a deposition in SINALTRAINAL v. Coke, May 1, 2003; “Anchors Aboard: Coke Gives Panamco Larger Bottling Role in Latin America,” Beverage World, December 1, 1995.
Page 188 25 percent by 1997: “Panamerican Beverages and Panamco LLC Historical Timeline,” submitted as exhibit to a deposition in