Analysis:Colombia's 10 top corporations, or mafia organizations?
Analysis
Colombia’s 10 top corporations, or mafia organizations?
by Adriaan Alsema October 29, 2018
Six of Colombia’s largest corporations could face damning convictions if the country’s chief prosecutor would follow up on their alleged criminal behavior.
Supermarket monopolist Exito from Medellin is Colombia’s most successful corporation in terms of revenue, which went up 9.4% in 2017 to reach $18.4 billion. The company the country’s largest employer with 168 thousand employees, 42 thousand of whom work in Colombia.
The company has long been praised in the business community for being one of the country’s best employers, but this may say more about the sorry state of labor conditions in Colombia than about Exito’s policies.
Exito almost perfectly copied the economic system of late Italian dictator’s “corporativismo” model; it created its own, corporate controlled labor union, Sintraexito, which actively undermines workers’ union Sintrainac.
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Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol was one of the primary sponsors of paramilitary group AUC, according to the now-defunct group’s last leader, according to former AUC chief Salvatore Mancuso.
“They instigated the killing of civilians” deemed undesirable as part of what they considered the AUC’s security work, the top AUC chief said.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-10-top-corporations-or-biggest-mafia-organizations/
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You may recall Salvatore Mancuso was shipped out to spend some time in a US prison, even though he had killed innumerable people with his death squad madmen and should have stood trial in Colombia for those murders. He told 60 Minutes a few years ago, a very big show, that he had wondered why no one from Colombia or the FBI, etc. had come to interview him once he was safely deposited in his cell here. You also may recall that when he WAS in Colombian prison, he had a computer, tv, etc., all kinds of conveniences placed at his disposal in his cell there. Simply amazing.
Manuso, back in the good old days with the AUC.
Standing with Vicente Castaño, a monster, in the plaid shirt.
Vicente was murdered, along with some bodyguards. Many
people believe his brother, Carlos was responsible.
Carlos, a hideous monster, too, was murdered, next.
The same things keep going in Colombia. They won't stop until someone stops them.
