US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads
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Landmark verdict against Chiquita marks first time major US company held liable for funding human rights abuses abroad

not bad

found guilty of supporting designated far right terrorists and letting their banana boats be used for drug smuggling

  • plinky [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Chiquita has argued that it was extorted by the AUC and that the payments were necessary to protect its employees from armed Marxists.

    lenin-dont-laugh

      • plinky [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        i-spil-my-jice 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 rat-salute

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        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.