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
Chiquita has argued that it was extorted by the AUC and that the payments were necessary to protect its employees from armed Marxists.
Are the armed marxists in the room with us now?
i'm being extorted, mods, mods.But this is fucking astonishing, they are openly saying that they either have to hire goons to kill marxists or that they are extorted, it can't be both. Give drones to based colombian marxists
It was probably FARC or ELN, but hey, if you don't want to get run out of your banana plantation by leftist guerrillas maybe don't have an exploitative banana plantation in the areas they control.
God I wish.
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?
It's a start.
Wondering if this will set a precedent that can be used against Nestle for using child-slavery contractors for cacao harvesting.
It's a court in Florida so, talking completely out of my ass, it'll probably get appealed up until they get a favorable court. Given the SC said "slavery is cool so long as it's not in America (and also they can do little a slavery here as a treat)" I wouldn't get my hopes up.
I like how they had a milk scandal like the one China handled in 2008, and they got away with it.
It's the 20's, and the United Fruit Company is running death squads in Colombia. As is tradition.
Burning Twenties have superior pollutants to the Roaring Twenties.
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It's a start. But if corporations in the US are considered people with rights to free speech, then they should also be subject to the death penalty.
It's good that something happened but honestly $34M is nothing for what they did, real justice would be 100% of shares of the company transferred to those families.