Enough! Accounting and Remembering the Long War in Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

11. Just scanned your article, will read it upon return, late this P.M.

I'm not sure I saw "Chiquita," (earlier, "United Fruit&quot there, but they have been powerful in Colombia, also, just as they are all over Central America.

Drummond, you may recall, is currently involved in a lawsuit brought by the wife of one of the union workers murdered by Drummond Coal, home-based in Birmingham, Alabama, through one of its "security," paramilitaries (death squad) who do custom torture, terrorism, assassination to discourage union building. That story is hideous.

Businesses use the paras to terrorize the people living on land where their ancestors lived, in many cases, into running away, (displaced people of Colombia constitute the world's LARGEST displaced people population in the entire world, now) then, after factories or agricultural operations are established, they hire the death squads to terrorize the workers in hopes of keeping them too frightened to dare to build unions to gain safe work conditions, humane hours, and above slavery wages.

Looking forward to seeing your article later. Thanks, a lot, for the post.