The Coca-Cola Killings

http://www.counterpunch.org/coke0906.html

This article is old but has a lot of important information that people need to know about.
There have been numerous Coca-Cola killings in Colombian bottling plants. In 2002, a union activist named Adolfo de Jesus Munera was murdered right after a lawsuit that he filed against Coca-Cola had been accepted by the Colombia's Constitutional Court."Adolfo de Jesus Munera was a regional leader of the Sinaltrainal food industry workers' union and a former employee of the Coca-Cola plant Embotelladora Roman in the town of Barranquilla." Munera was not the first Colombian union leader to have been murdered though. Seven others came before him and many others have been abducted and tortured. These attacks happen to the people who have been connected with threats to Coca-Cola employees to quit their union.
Five years before Munera's murder, in April 1997, Emilio Hernandez, the plant chief, accused Munera of beign a rebel sympithizer and so Hernandez secretly ordered the Colombian authorities to take care of him. After his home had been raided, Munera fled out of town. The Coca-Cola Company than sent him a letter telling thim he was dismissed because he had not shown up for work that day. Because he was supported by his union, Munera filed a law suit against the company demanding that he be given his job back. He won the first time but during the second level, he was not supported by the judge. On August 22, after he had appealed, he recieved a letter from the Colombian Constitutional Court informing him that his case had been accepted once again. A little over a week later, Munera was shot and killed outside his mothers home by unknown gunmen waiting outside from him.
I do not understand how things like this can happen to people like Munera. How can Coca-Cola get away with this? How can they be such a powerful company? They sell beverages, but instead they are acting like their own government. This article will without a doubt help with my argument against Coke. How can articles like this come out and people read about them and do nothing to stop this company?