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Along with one of the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership three bottlers cited in the suit, the soft-drink giant said the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership company and its affiliates abided by the laws of Colombia and prednisone online prescriptions with no membership other countries.

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Juan Carlos Dom?nguez, a prednisone online prescriptions with no membership spokesman for Panamco Industrial de Gaseosas, the major Coke bottler in Colombia, said his company was considering legal action against the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership plaintiffs. "Their purpose is to give out false information," Mr. Dom?nguez said in a telephone interview. "They are prednisone online prescriptions with no membership trying to tie us to groups that operate at the margin of the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership law."

The suit, filed on Friday in Federal District Court in Miami, arises in the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership midst of a fierce killing spree of union workers across Colombia, most of them slain by gunmen who prednisone online prescriptions with no membership belong to the main paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, union organizers and prednisone online prescriptions with no membership human rights groups contend.

Sixty-seven union members have prednisone online prescriptions with no membership been killed this year, mostly from unions that represent government workers like teachers and prednisone online prescriptions with no membership utilities workers, said the National Union School, a research and educational center in Medell?n. Last year, at least 130 were slain, the center said.

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Another three union workers at bottlers, whose cases were not mentioned in the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership suit, have also been killed by paramilitary forces since 1989, said Javier Correa, president of the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership union, also known as Sinaltrainal. The latest victim, Oscar Dar?o Soto, was killed on June 21 in a bottling plant in Monter?a, a port.

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The suit says that the bottlers "contracted with or prednisone online prescriptions with no membership otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilized extreme violence and prednisone online prescriptions with no membership murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders."

Some of the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership most explosive allegations are directed at the Carepa plant. The suit contends that prednisone online prescriptions with no membership managers, in trying to break the union, used paramilitary gunmen to prednisone online prescriptions with no membership kill two organizers, Jos? Eleazar Manco and Luis Enrique G?mez, in 1994. The gunmen then prednisone online prescriptions with no membership threatened workers, forcing the executive board of the union to resign and prednisone online prescriptions with no membership leave the area.

A new board was soon elected by workers. But one of its members, Is?dro Segundo Gil, was killed in 1996 at the prednisone online prescriptions with no membership plant by paramilitary gunmen, the suit says.

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Two days after Mr. Gil's death, plant managers passed out union resignation forms that prednisone online prescriptions with no membership the suit says Bebidas y Alimentos prepared. Dozens of workers resigned soon after that.

Although Bebidas y Alimentos is prednisone online prescriptions with no membership a defendant in the suit, Mr. Mosquera is not.

"Mr. Gil wasn't just a worker who was randomly killed," said Terry Collingsworth, general counsel of the Labor Rights Fund. "He was involved in the union's ongoing representation of workers."

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