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### Viewing cable 09BOGOTA3302, U.S. COMPANY DISTRAUGHT OVER PUBLICITY LINKING IT TO LABOR

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09BOGOTA3302 | 2009-10-16 19:07 | 2011-03-16 12:12 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Bogota
Appears in these articles: http://www.elespectador.com/wikileaks

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    UNCLAS BOGOTA 003302

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PHUM ECON PREL ETRD EINV PGOV CO
    SUBJECT: U.S. COMPANY DISTRAUGHT OVER PUBLICITY LINKING IT TO LABOR
    MURDERS

    REF: A) 06 BOGOTA 3764; B) BOGOTA 3127

    ¶1.  (SBU) Summary:  The President of Drummond in Colombia contends
    there is a concerted effort to link the U.S. firm with the murder
    of two labor leaders in 2001.  Despite being declared innocent of
    any involvement in a U.S. court, the company is frustrated over the
    negative press it has received as a result of "new" testimony from
    a convicted accomplice to the murders.  The company representative
    noted the allegations are the same as those in the earlier court
    case, with additional inconsistencies.  The presentation of the
    testimony in late September coincided with President Uribe's travel
    to New York, the United Steelworkers' letter to Secretary Clinton,
    and U.S. press articles on the subject.  End Summary.

    ¶2.  (SBU) Commercial and Economic Counselors met with the President
    of Drummond in Colombia, Augusto Jimenez, to discuss recent
    allegations made against the company -- the largest U.S. investor
    in Colombia.  The U.S. coal firm directly employs an estimated
    4,200 workers and provides indirect employment to another 12,000
    people.  Jimenez expressed frustration over publicity given to
    recent testimony by a convicted mastermind in the 2001 murders of
    two labor leaders in SINTRAMIENERGETICA at Drummond.  Jimenez noted
    the testimony raised the same allegations of which the company was
    absolved in a 2007 U.S. federal court decision in Alabama.  The
    testimony was presented in Alabama on September 22, 2009, in an
    effort to reopen the U.S. case.

    ¶3.  (SBU) Jimenez noted this is not the first time that Drummond
    has been linked publicly to the 2001 murders.  Rafael Garcia, a
    former Administrative Security Department (DAS) employee who served
    prison time for an unrelated crime, claimed publicly that he saw
    Jimenez at a meeting give a suitcase full of money to a
    paramilitary leader to eliminate "labor problems."  Garcia later
    changed his story claiming he was not there, according to Jimenez.
    Garcia also claimed President Uribe was aware of DAS activities
    with paramilitaries, which included drug trafficking (ref A).

    Colombian Investigation of Labor Leader Murders

    --------------------------------------------- ---------------------

    ¶4.  (U) Jairo de Jesus Charris Castro, whose September testimony
    was presented to the court in Alabama, is the apparent source cited
    in the October 1 Los Angeles Times editorial, "Murder in Colombia
    and a U.S. Multinational."  The Colombian judiciary on August 4,
    2009, sentenced Charris to 30 years in prison for his role in the
    murder of SINTRAMIENERGETICA labor leaders Valmore Locarno and
    Victor Orcasita and for his subsequent participation in a
    paramilitary organization.  At the time of the murders, Charris had
    worked as the security chief for the cafeteria contract service at
    Drummond, which was owned by another person implicated in the
    scandal, Jaime Blanco.

    ¶5.  (U) According to the Colombian judicial ruling (provided to us
    by Jimenez), Charris and Blanco met with paramilitaries to plan the
    labor union murders, and on March 12, 2001, Charris identified the
    labor leaders at a road block to paramilitaries who subsequently
    killed them.  A paramilitary member testified that Charris had
    admitted his own role in the assassinations.  Moreover, Charris had
    explained the motive:  Blanco wanted the labor leaders dead because
    the union sought the termination of Blanco's cafeteria service.

    ¶6.  (SBU) Jimenez shared with us that Charris' capture was a result
    of emails Charris sent to Jimenez.  Charris had demanded in an
    email that Drummond provide him money in exchange for not accusing
    Drummond of being involved in the murders; Charris stated that he
    had been offered money by the union to tell his story to "La
    Semana" magazine.  Jimenez said he notified Colombian authorities,
    who tapped Jimenez's phone and computer and traced the
    communications to Charris.  In one email, Charris admits to

    coordinating the operation against the labor leaders.

    Testimony of a Murder Mastermind

    --------------------------------------------- ---

    ¶7.  (U) Charris testified on September 3, 2009, that he accompanied
    Jaime Blanco to a meeting at the request of the Drummond security
    chief, Jim Atkins, on March 6, 2001.  Atkins reportedly asked
    Blanco if he had ties to the AUC (paramilitary force) and indicated
    there were some "jobs" that needed to be done, notably to get rid
    of SINTRAMIENERGETICA union leaders.  In addition to company owner
    Gary Drummond and Drummond President Mike Tracy, Charris said Jim
    Atkins listed Jimenez and seven other Drummond employees who agreed
    that the paramilitaries should kill the labor leaders.  In his May
    7, 2009 testimony in Colombia, Charris said Gary Drummond ordered
    Atkins to plan the murder of the labor leaders.  When asked
    directly whether Jimenez and other Drummond employees knew of the
    plan ahead of time, Charris indicated he could not confirm that.

    ¶8.  (U) According to Charris' testimony, he accompanied Blanco to
    the operational planning meeting with paramilitary commander
    Tolemaida a few days after the March 6 meeting with Atkins.
    However, Charris claimed he stayed outside the camp and did not
    hear the conversation.  Charris stated that he was not involved in
    the murder operation and that someone else had identified the labor
    union leaders to the paramilitary assassins.

    Prosecutors to Explore Possible Links

    --------------------------------------------- ----

    ¶9.  (SBU) In the 98-page conviction of Charris, the judge in one
    sentence instructed, based on the testimony of JairoCharris, that
    Jim Atkins, Gary Drummond, Agusto Jimenez and two other Drummond
    employees be investigated for possible criminal participation.  In
    an October 7 meeting at the Colombian Office of the Attorney
    General, EconCouns asked whether Drummond was under investigation
    for the 2001 murders.  The head of the human rights division
    acknowledged the judicial instruction to investigate Drummond, as
    they have for Coca-Cola and Nestle in other labor-related cases,
    but believed there was little evidence on which to proceed.  To
    date Drummond has not been contacted or asked to provide any
    statements.

    ¶10.  (SBU) Jimenez pointed out several inconsistencies in Charris'
    testimonies.  He also highlighted the sworn testimony in the United
    States by Jim Atkins and Drummond executives, including Jimenez,
    indicating that the company did not have any agreement or
    involvement with paramilitaries in Colombia, nor any involvement in
    the murder of the two labor leaders.  Jimenez described company
    executives as distraught over the repeated allegations of
    Drummond's involvement in the murders.  The Drummond President in
    Colombia noted that Charris' testimony in late September surfaced
    during President Uribe's travel to New York and coincided with
    several U.S. press articles and the United Steelworkers' letter to
    Secretary Clinton (on the court case and related labor strikes, ref
    B).
    NICHOLS

    =======================CABLE ENDS============================

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