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So - looks like Chiquita isn't out of the forest yet on being held accountable for financing, aiding, and abetting the intimidation, kidnapping and murder in Columbia.
Chiquita paid the FARC to intimidate labor unions and sabotage rival growers as a means of “squashing competition and assuring defendants of an accommodating labor force,” the families said. Read more...
Well looks like this dude will still get to keep his shirt afterall, another tragedy in all of this is that the real news is on the pages of produce rags.
This is really playing out well for Wal-Mart. They have Transfair in their mits - using Paul Rice as a mouthpiece for Sam's Club...then on the other end they are building the most threatening WMD the banana world has ever known....the 39 cent/lb. banana. Read more...
So the linkage of Chiquita to the recent coup in Honduras maybe old news to folks, perhaps not even surprising for anyone that's aware of the term "Banana Republic" outside of a shopping mall setting. Read more...
Speaking of food fights... I was delighted (momentarily) to read a few months ago that the European Union has fined Dole Food Co. and Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. more than $80 million for their involvement in a banana price-fixing scheme that lasted for at least two years between 2000 and 2002. Dole and Del Monte, along with Chiquita, (who successfully avoided penalties by "cooperating" with EU investigators), control over two-thirds of global trade in the world's most popular fruit. And yet they still feel the need to fix prices. Read more...
