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TIL Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/24/marketingandpr.colombia
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Coca-Cola boycott launched after killings at Colombian plants

Trade unions around the world have launched a boycott of Coca-Cola products, alleging that the company's locally owned bottlers in Colombia used illegal paramilitary groups to intimidate, threaten and kill its workers.
Sibylla Brodzinsky (The Guardian)
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Chuck LeDuc Díaz
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@pluralistic yesterday I learned that James Farley, the Irish-American Catholic political kingmaker who put FDR in the presidency, "retired" from politics to drive Coca-Cola's global conquest. I had no idea Coca-Cola was so central to the soft [drink] power of the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farley

American politician (1888-1976)

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