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Page 283 started receiving threats: Palacios, interview by the author; asylum petition; Palacios v. Coke.
Page 283 did sign a statement with Palacios: Ministerio Público, República de Guatemala, undated document.
Page 283 working the graveyard shift . . . waited to be killed: Palacios, interview by the author; asylum petition; Palacios v. Coke.
Page 283 “totally damaging” to the company: Memorandum from Eduardo García to Colonel Efraín Aguirre, undated.
Page 284 the bottler fired him . . . The union protested: Palacios, interview by the author; asylum petition; Palacios v. Coke; “Petition to Remove Guatemala from the List of Beneficiary Developing Countries Under the Generalized System of Preferences,” submitted by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP), June 15, 2005.
Page 284 been in contact with Ed Potter: Ron Oswald e-mail, December 3, 2005.
Page 284 Oswald says that he was not involved: Ron Oswald, interview by the author.
Page 284 Coke Atlanta would fund a hefty “protection package”: Stephen Coats e-mail to Bob Perillo, January 26, 2006, referring to protection offer by Stan Gacek, Virtus Advisors.
Page 284 killing him right in front of Palacios: Palacios interview; asylum petition.
Page 285 “approached by a certain D.C.-based lawyer”: Ron Oswald e-mails to Bob Perillo, January 29 and February 2, 2006.
Page 285 arranged a meeting at a hotel: Rodrigo Romero e-mail to Bob Perillo, February 1, 2006.
Page 285 to confirm he offered money to Palacios: Rodrigo Romero e-mails to Bob Perillo, February 6 and 10, 2006.
Page 285 filed in New York Supreme Court in February 2010: Summons and Complaint, Palacios v. Coke.
Page 286 “The author describes”: Potter, interview by the author.
Page 288 “too vague and conclusory”: Opinion, SINALTRAINAL v. Coke Appeal, August 11, 2009.
Page 289 “We’d like to start with”: The Coca-Cola Company, Annual Meeting of Stockholders, 2009, notes by the author.
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