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Coca-Cola and death squads

Australian unions are calling for a boycott of Coca-Cola over the company's Latin American bottler's use of death squads to resolve industrial-relations problems. Coca-Cola, of course, deny the charge, asserting that it is strictly against corporate policy to violate human rights, and that maverick elements within the local franchise must have been involved without the parent company's knowledge.

There are 2 comments on "Coca-Cola and death squads":

Posted by: mitch http:// Mon Jul 7 07:44:16 2003

Off-topic: I went looking for Colombian blogs and found this curse against the whole world of software (under "Other observations"):

http://hatemachine.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_hatemachine_archive.html#95225860

Posted by: Toast http:// Tue Aug 5 06:30:38 2003

What?? They're killing people in Latin-America for Coke? That's unheard of.