Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Things go better with Coke?

Since August of last year, Brazilian manufacturer Dolly Soda has made various accusations against the Coca-Cola Company. The president of Dolly Soda, Laerte Codonho, told a reporter of Brasil de Fato how Coke has hired a lobby group to control various sectors of the Brazilian government to act in its favor, and revealed detailed documents of Coke's plans to eliminate Dolly from the market.

The accusations began when Rede TV! aired a video tape of Coke's ex-director of strategic acquisitions, Luiz Eduardo Capistrano do Amaral, divulging how he planned to eliminate Dolly Soda at the orders of Coke's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

...Below are excerpts of Brasil de Fato's interview with the president of Dolly Soda, Laerte Codonho:

Brasil de Fato: How in practice did Coke's scheme to take Dolly out of the market work?

Laerte Codonho: The strategy, according to the director of Coca-Cola himself, involved suppliers, the Public Ministry, the Federal Income Tax Service, sabotage and spying....With these revelations now, the director of Coca-Cola himself says that they do not want the accusations investigated in the House of Representatives, but in the Secretary of Economic Rights (SDE). We demonstrated that Coke's manager of governmental issues had dinner with a technical advisor of the SDE, and this advisor, in this case, operates as a judge. So, you imagine the accused having dinner with the person who is going to judge this shameful case. It is shameful, wouldn't you say?
  Brazzil article

I'd say that's the Scalia-Cheney model of justice.

BF: In an interview with Pasquim21, you said that last year you made your accusations public at 6:30 p.m., and that at 11:00 p.m. Nelson Schincariol was killed. [Schincariol is another Brazilian manufacturer of beverages]. Is there a connection here?

LC: No. I can't confirm this. I can only say that Coca-Cola itself, through Capistrano, said that there is no competition in Mexico because they assassinated the competitors, killed them, eliminated them physically. And these are the same people who control Coca-Cola in São Paulo.


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....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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