Coca Cola facing terrorism support charges in Colombia
Source: Colombia Reports
Coca Cola facing terrorism support charges in Colombia
written by Adriaan Alsema August 30, 2016
Multinational beverage producer Coca Cola is one of more than 50 companies who will called to respond to charges they financially supported the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC, a designated terrorist organization.
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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.
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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.
The AUC, the largest paramilitary group in recent Colombian history, demobilized between 2003 and 2006, after which the ties between the country’s political and business elite and the designated terrorist group became clear.
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