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Chiquita Brands was ordered Monday by a Florida jury to pay $38.3 million to the families of eight people killed by a right-wing paramilitary group in Colombia, which the banana grower had funded for years during that country's violent civil war.

Chiquita had previously acknowledged funding the paramilitary group, pleading guilty in 2007 after the U.S. Department of Justice charged the company with providing payments to what the agency labeled a "terrorist organization." The group, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC, received payments from Chiquita from about 1997 through 2004, which the company had described as "security payments" during the country's internal conflict.

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[–] manucode 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is about Chiquita's activities in the late 1990s and early 2000s, not about the 1928 coup in Honduras which was funded by Chiquita, then called United Fruit Company.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see a hot new name drop coming in.

[–] manucode 2 points 1 year ago

Un-ited Fru-eet Comp-any? Noone at Chiquita has ever heart of this thing before.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True...but that was still decades ago

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know how every once in a while there's an article going "man, check out all this illegal fucked up shit the CIA was doing 20 years ago, sure is great they stopped and don't do anything illegal and fucked up anymore", and the date they stopped doing the illegal shit is always "20 years ago", regardless of when the article is published?

Well, that.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You bring up an excellent point that I hate very much