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Article: COLOMBIA: COCA-COLA SUED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.
- Article from:
- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- August 10, 2001
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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) and the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) filed suit July 20 in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Coca-Cola and Miami-based Panamerican Beverages, Inc., the primary bottler of Coke products in Latin America. The lawsuit charges that Coca- Cola's Colombian bottlers are working with death squads to kill, threaten, and intimidate plant workers.
The case was brought under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ACTA) and US racketeering statutes. It was assigned to US District Judge Paul Huck in Miami.
Also named in the suit are Colombian bottlers PANAMCO, owned by ...