Incidents where Multinational Corporations (MNCs) sponsor massacres in order to eradicate dissenting voices against their obsession for profit have been a motif through Colombia’s history.
At the beginning of the 20th century it was the army who suppressed labor protests. The best example is the Banana Massacre in 1928 in which the army exterminated laborer protesting over wages in behalf of the United Fruit Company. This bloody episode in Colombia’s history was immortalized in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Since the mid 20th century, the slaughtering of the most vulnerable in society has been “outsourced” from the military to paramilitaries directly sponsored by MNCs but still in direct complicity with the government and the army. (more…)
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