In Colombia, right-wing paramilitary squads of the AUC showed up at Coca-Cola bottling plants to intimidate, beat, and kill union leaders from Sinaltrainal. On December 5, 1996, paramilitaries murdered union leader Isidro Gil at the gate of the Coke bottling plant in Carepa. Witnesses said the paramilitaries told union activists 'quit the union or die.' A $500 million lawsuit was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act. Since 1986, over 3,800 trade unionists were assassinated in Colombia, with bottling plant workers specifically targeted.