Manslaughter by negligence; the accusation levelled against Nestle is serious. The Swiss multinational would not protect Luciano Romero, a Nestle employee in Colombia and union activist who was due to testify against Nestle in Bern. One month before, he was brutally murdered. Was it just a tragic event, but isolated, due to circumstance ? Not so sure… This exceptional investigation guides us through witness testimony and unpublished documents and to the Philippines, where a charismatic unionist, similarly employed by Nestle, was also killed. In any case, these events illustrate that in these two countries, daring to speak out against powerful multinationals has a price. Sometimes deadly…