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Page 188 Panamco consolidated seventeen plants: Panamerican Beverages Inc., Annual Report, 2003.
Page 189 Some 6,700 Coke workers . . . cutting contracts with its workers: Gill, “Labor and Human Rights”; Lesley Gill, “Coca-Cola in Colombia: Increased Profits, Downsized Workforce,” Colombia Journal, July 27, 2004.
Page 189 acquired by Mexico’s Coca-Cola FEMSA: Panamco proxy statement, March 23, 2003; Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V., Annual Report, 2004.
Page 189 officials met directly with a member . . . spared any violence: Galvis and Mendoza, interviews by the author; Amnesty International, “Colombia: Killing, Arbitrary Detentions, and Death Threats—The Reality of Trade Unionism in Colombia,” January 23, 2007.
Page 189 Galvis saw Rincón inside the company: Galvis and Mendoza, interviews by the author.
Page 189 arrested and convicted for conspiracy: “Por homicidio de tesorero de la USO cuatro condenados,” Fiscalía, April 11, 2007, http://www.fiscalia.gov.co/PAG/DIVULGA/noticias2007/seccionales/SeccHomicidioAbr11.htm; “Aviso de citación a versión libre,” Fiscalía, http://www.fiscalia.gov.co/justiciapaz/DetalleVersion.asp?ce=91422724; Galvis, interview by the author; Michael Lydon, “Interview: Juan Carlos Galvis Discusses Colombia’s Fight Against Coca-Cola and Its Bitter Attacks on Himself and His Family,” Morning Star (London), June 13, 2005.
Page 190 threats against Galvis . . . then her husband: Galvis, interview by the author.
Page 190 several men tried to pull . . . Mendoza declined: Mendoza, interview by the author; Final Report, “An Investigation of Allegations of Murder and Violence in Coca-Cola’s Bottling Plants,” NYC Fact-Finding Delegation on Coca-Cola in Colombia led by New York City councilman Hiram Monserrate, April 2004.
Page 191 witnesses reported that an armed robbery: Galvis, interview by the author.
Page 192 “He’ll work a year” . . . “They are going to disappear me”: Álvaro González, interview by the author.
Page 194 “I told them” . . . “We haven’t done anything wrong”: González and Domingo Flores, interviews by the author.
Page 194 earned the nickname “Chile”: Luis Eduardo García, interview by the author.
Page 194 in death threats he is referred to by that nickname: García, interview by the author; undated death threat signed “Águilas Negras.”
Page 195 When Chile first pulled into . . . pieces of candy: González, Flores, and García, interviews by the author.
Page 196 fired from their jobs: González, García, Flores, and Laura Milena García, interviews by the author.
Page 196 174 days in La Modelo: González, interview by the author.
Page 196 case started falling apart . . . ending the investigation: Fiscalía General de la Nación, Radicado No. 7834, San José de Cúcuta.
Page 196 prosecutors declined to press charges: Eduardo García and Alejandro García Salzedo, union lawyer for SINALTRAINAL, interviews by the author.
Page 196 In 2002, González’s daughter . . . “I become another Álvaro”: González, interview by the author.
Page 197 union has been decimated: Carlos Olaya, interview by the author.
Page 197 outsourcing of the workforce: Olaya, interview by the author.
Page 198 wages are even worse: Olaya, interview by the author.
Page 198 Coca-Cola now controls 60 percent: Olaya, interview by the author.
Page 198 threats against SINALTRAINAL continue: Human Rights Watch, Paramilitaries’ Heirs: The New Face of Violence in Colombia, February 3, 2010.
Page 198 or even e-mailed: E-mail provided by Juan Carlos Galvis.
Page 198 paramilitaries kidnapped Flores’s son: Flores, interview by the author; also reported by Colombia Solidarity Campaign, “Death Threat/Fear for Safety,” October 5, 2007, http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=45.
Page 198 Chile’s daughter Laura Milena García was targeted: Laura Milena García, interview by the author.
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