Colombia vows to indict companies accused of funding death squads
Colombia vows to indict companies accused of funding death squads
by Adriaan Alsema May 25, 2018
Colombia’s chief prosecutor on Thursday promised results of more than 16,000 criminal investigations into the country’s private sector’s ties to illegal armed groups.
The announcement came less than two weeks after the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) heard victims of paramilitary groups, many of which were formed and funded by ranchers and corporations.
The phenomenon of using paramilitary death squads for profit has become known as “para-economics.”
Thousands of ranchers, miners, farming companies and corporations were never taken to court four decades after the first paramilitary groups formed.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-vows-to-indict-companies-that-funded-death-squads/
One of multiple US companies believed to employ Colombian death squads to control labor problems:
Coca-Cola and Latin American Death Squads
Saturday, 20 July 2002, 8:01 pm
Press Release: Council on Hemispheric Affairs
7/19/2002 02.23
Once Again Coca-Cola and Latin American Death Squads Become Synonymous
* Reminiscent of the slaughter of trade union leaders in the 1980s at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City
* Coca-Cola to be held accountable for "extrajudicial killing, torture, and unlawful detention"-landmark case may help to hold other, multi-national corporations responsible for franchises or foreign subsidiaries' activities throughout Latin America
* Company sued for labor abuses in Colombia
* Colombia about to get the type of negative publicity over the Coca-Cola situation it can ill afford
* Corporation taking urgent measures to dismiss case
* Coca-Cola among the "most notorious" employers in Colombia
* U.S. funds indirectly pay for paramilitary attacks on organized labor, adding to Colombia's political tumult
More:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0207/S00087.htm
Also posted in LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142068071
