The case involves a campaign of violence that includes rape, attempted murder and murder against two Guatemalan trade unionists and their families. The two trade unionists are Jose Armando Palacios, who was forced to flee to the U.S. in early 2006, and Jose Alberto Vicente Chavez, whose son and nephew were murdered and whose daughter was gang raped on March 1, 2008. (Watch the interview.)
Some find it unbelievable that human rights abuses--the systematic intimidation, kidnapping, torture and murder--are occurring at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia and Guatemala. But it's not the first time Coke has committed such atrocities.
The back cover of a 1987 booklet, "Soft Drink, Hard Labour," published by the Latin America Bureau in London, England stated: