Belching Out the Devil (48 page)

Authors: Mark Thomas

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11) Does The Coca-Cola Company share the view of its bottlers that in bringing legal action against the Company, SINALTRAINAL had libelled and defamed the company? And did the Company agree with the defamation suit brought against SINALTRAINAL?

The Company has not

filed any official action against SINALTRAINAL in the case.

Local bottlers in Colombia

have
denounced the

certain
actions -
including incidents such as the painting of graffiti on bottling plant walls and barricading of plant entrances -
to authorities based on

reasonable concerns
for the safety of the Company and its ability to continue operations. In particular, the union's careless accusations that the bottlers somehow conspire with or support paramlitaries endangers the lives of the bottlers' management and personnel, who themselves are targets for violence, including at the direction Colombia's notorious guerilla insurgency. T