sidro Gil was shot on 5th. Dezember 1996 in Coca-Cola bottling-plant 'Bebidas Y Alimentos de Urabá' by paramilitary forces. the murder was the anser of the company on a list of demands the union made at the beginning of collective bargainings. after that, paramilitary groups forced all the workers to leave the union.
the film reconstructs the case in detail and puts it into the political and historic context of the region Urabá, where between 1995 and 1998 through thousends of murders the successefull left-wing party Union Patriotica and all social movements were wiped out.
Barbara Schönafinger
union paramilitary violence murder Coca-Cola