Name a more iconic pair than bananas and fascist death squads
Trump and a rolled-up magazine?
Thats implying that trump is like a dog.
Don’t say that. I LIKE dogs!
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capitalists and pinkertons… oh wait
Financiers and nutmeg? Wait that’s the same too
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Eh same old same old… Wait they’re getting “punished” this time? Well that’s new I guess.
I had a guy tell me the US doesn’t meddle in Central or South America anymore. 🤔
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Florida jury on Monday found banana company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).
The jury in the civil case, in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, found that “Chiquita knowingly provided substantial assistance to the AUC to a degree sufficient to create a foreseeable risk of harm to others.”
Chiquita, one of the world’s largest banana producers, has been ordered to pay a total of $38.3 million to the families of eight victims of the AUC, which was a far-right paramilitary group that was designated a terrorist organization by the US.
In 2007, Chiquita pleaded guilty to making over 100 payments to the AUC totaling over $1.7 million despite the group being designated a terrorist organization.
An unnamed company executive had told the Justice Department that the payments had been made under the threat of violence, according to the release.
In a social media post, Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, reacted to the American jury’s Tuesday decision and asked why the same ruling was not made in his home country.
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Isn’t Chicita the corporate heir to United Fruit?
yes
That’s bananas!
War is a racket.
Damn that’s crazy. I’ve never heard of bananas being associated with violence… anytime in the last 120-140 years…
That’s bananas
It’s where the term “banana republic” comes from.
Okay I’ll come clean; I literally chose the range “120-140 years” by looking up the year that term was coined (1904) 😂
And then we made it cute by putting it on clothing. What a twist.
It’s actually a super cute brand name if you just disregard everything about it
b a n a n a
Again?!
Who’s going to post that 2 nickels meme?
The fine? $38 million.
Chiquita Brands International’s profits in 2023? $3.1 billion.
That’s a slap on the wrist if anything. Just the cost of doing business I guess.
To put that into context:
if all you had was a $100 USD Note, the equivalent of that “slap on the wrist” fine would be $1.23
I’ll do the math when I get home, but that serms high. Gut instinct I thought it would be more like $0.10.
(38 mill/3.1bil)*100=1.2258 roughly
Is this an article from 70 years ago?
For Colombians who suffered at the hand of the guerrilla-paramilitary conflict, it was not 70 years ago.
The paramilitary group mentioned in the article, AUC, disbanded around 2006-2008.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Again?
At this point it’s not a surprise, it’s when asked to name paramilitary financers, first name that comes up is chiquita.
PEOPLE DIED
PEOPLE NEED TO BE JAILED OVER THIS
Lol. You and I both know that’s not gonna happen.
What year is this?!?
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