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Coca Cola facing terrorism support charges in Colombia

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Multinational beverage producer Coca Cola is one of more than 50 companies that will be charged with financing the now-defunct Colombian paramilitary AUC group, a designated terrorist organization.
Several courts will reportedly forward evidence of the involvement of the companies in financing the AUC, which killed many dozens of labor rights defenders during its existence between 1997 and 2006, to a transitional justice tribunal.


The companies are among a list of 120 companies named by demobilized paramilitaries as financiers of the AUC, which committed more than 130 massacres and displaced millions.
During the Colombian state’s 52 years of armed conflict with leftist guerrillas, thousands of Colombian businesses and businessmen were extorted by either the guerrillas or their adversaries, far-right paramilitary groups like the AUC.
These paramilitary groups emerged in the 1980s as self-defense groups to defend the private property of large landowners from groups like the FARC and ELN, who were increasingly extorting and kidnapping wealthy Colombians.
However, thousands of businesses and paramilitary groups went further and began a political extermination campaign of the country’s left, killing unionists, leftist thought leaders and human rights defenders.
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Coke is the drink of the death squads. Its about damn time this moves forward. It has been well documented.

 
Coca-Cola will either settle this out of court or, at worst, lose access to the Colombian market.

In the long run, and in a relative sense, this will hurt Colombians more than it hurts Coca-Cola given job losses, loss of philanthropic efforts, and the fact that the alternative colas just plain suck.

Just more evidence of how leftist ideologies hurt "the people" more than they help.
 
A question.


If this were a person, and he got busted for providing aid to the AUC, what would be his fate?


Whatever that is, should be the fate of Coca Cola.


Remember....corporations are people to.
 
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