Posted on 06/11/2024 5:20:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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.
The decision marks the first time an American jury has held a large U.S. corporation liable for a major human rights violation in another country, according to EarthRights International, a human rights firm that represented one family in the case. Chiquita still faces thousands of other claims from victims of the AUC, and Monday's decision could pave the way for more cases to come to trial or for a "global settlement," said Marco Simons, EarthRights general counsel, in a press conference to discuss the jury's decision.
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"Those are some nice bananas ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to them."
Can victims families of Oct 7 sue entities that funded Hamas?....I’m hearing crickets.
takes a lot of bananas to afford a republic?
“I’m Chiquita banana and I’m here to say”
Were the family members that were killed communists? Then they got what they deserved.
Chiquita paid political gangsters in Columbia to not attack their farms and factories,
only to face even worse, and more powerful gangsters, in the form of woke US NGOs and huge, ambulance-chasing US law firms in Washington DC, both of whom will skim off the vast majority of takings from the case.
Not my fault. I detest bananas. Never have and never will support these creeps.
The Jury and EarthRights International will get theirs when they become No Longer Useful Idiots, to the Marxist Left, and the world will not hear a peep about their miserable demise.
In Spades.
War is a racket...Gen.Smedley Butler.
I read that book. Recommended it to other Freepers.
Let’s see MurdeRNA and Pfizer charged for their human rights violations.
The usual CBS fatuous reporting. Who are the people who collect. Illegals? Children of illegals? Marxists? Who are their lawyers? Who paid them? Why is this trial in the USA instead of Colombia? Who determined the payment? How? So many questions, with CBS so few answers.
Q: What was Beethoven’s favorite fruit?
A: BA-NA-NA-NAAAAA.
thank you.
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.
“right-wing?”
This is one of those things that has nothing to do with the story. Chiquita and Columbia were just the starting line, see where this goes now and how far back.
Spot on!
Biden and the DemoNaziCommies have been funding (and arming, and supplying, and protecting) the Arab terrorists in their Occupation of the Jewish Promised Land for years. There’s tons of blood on their hands.
Hopefully this ruling in the banana case will apply to the DNC party bosses too
“Those are some nice bananas ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to them.”
Yep, the little shop-owners are liable for the Mafia’s crimes.
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