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This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
The suit alleged that the bottling companies "contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilised extreme violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders", and that Coca-Cola was indirectly responsible for this.
Coca-Cola said in a statement on Tuesday that the allegations against the company and its partners were "completely false", and that the campaign was "nothing more than a shameless effort to generate publicity".
While the plight of Colombia's Coca-Cola workers has become well-known overseas, local media were making no mention of the campaign yesterday.
The latest death of a Sinaltrainal member happened last August, when Adolfo Munera was murdered in Caribbean coastal city of Barranquilla.
A week earlier, the country's highest court had ordered the city's Coca-Cola bottler to re-employ him, after he was cleared of criminal charges filed against him in 1997
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