By Bill Law

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For years Liberia has traded its natural resources in return for services such as health and education from foreign corporations but have Liberians paid too high a price?

"These buildings were destroyed on the premise that they belonged to somebody else and that is the story all across Liberia," said Olu Menjay.

The widow of a brutally murdered Nestlé worker joins others in a lawsuit against the firm over her

husband's death.

BY JANE BUSSEY

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Colombian trade unionist Luciano Enrique Romero died a slow death. The fired Nestlé factory worker, whose body was found in a paramilitary-controlled area of Colombia a year ago, was tied up, tortured and then stabbed 40 times.

By Dan Turner

BETTER RED than dead. That's what I figured when I stopped by a Gap store the day after Project Red's Oct. 13 U.S. launch to pick up a T-shirt and, incidentally, save the world.

By Joshua Goodman

FACATATIVA, Colombia -- When workers at Colombia's largest flower grower organized themselves into a union a few years ago, they won protections against overly long hours, potentially dangerous exposure to pesticides and other abuses.

But in an increasingly globalized economy, the effort may also have cost the employees of Dole Food Co.'s flower division their jobs.

Last week, Estela Yepes was on her way out of work at the Splendor-Corzo flower farm outside of Bogota, the Colombian capital, when she was handed a one-page letter.