CHIQUITA Banana ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads
CHIQUITA Banana ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads
not bad
found guilty of supporting designated far right terrorists and letting their banana boats be used for drug smuggling
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chiquita, formerly the united fruit company, which, well, you know... (wikipedia)
The Banana Massacre was a massacre of workers of the United Fruit Company, now Chiquita, that occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928, in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia. A strike began on November 12, 1928, when the workers ceased to work until the company would reach an agreement with them to grant them dignified working conditions. After several weeks with no agreement, in which the United Fruit Company refused to negotiate with the workers, the conservative government of Miguel Abadía Méndez assigned Cortés Vargas as military chief in Magdalena department and sent 700 from the Colombian Army in against the strikers, resulting in the massacre of 47 to 2,000 people.
lmao that is certainly a range, wikipedia. which do you think the real total is closer to, hm?