Chiquita is going to have to sell a lot of bananas

Chiquita faces new lawsuit, $1 bln damages sought

Company has faced several damages suits for Colombia ops

Chiquita admitted paying right-wing AUC paramilitaries

In latest case, 242 seek damages for killings, injuries

MIAMI, April 14 (Reuters) - Nearly 250 Colombians who say they and relatives were victims of violence by Colombian right-wing paramilitaries filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking more than $1 billion in damages from the Chiquita banana company, which has admitted making payments to paramilitaries.

The lawsuit against the U.S.-based Chiquita Brands International Inc (CQB.N), was filed on behalf of 242 plaintiffs in a U.S. District Court in Florida. The plaintiffs were also seeking unspecified punitive damages from the court.


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Chiquita has already admitted to engaging in criminal conduct that violated federal law by making systematic financial payments to a foreign terrorist organization," Wolosky said.

"Yet it has refused to provide compensation to the victims of terrorist atrocities made possible by its regular, repeated and knowing financial support," added Wolosky, who is a former White House counterterrorism official under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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http://www.chiquitalawsuit.com/
Chiquita Lawsuit
WHEN AN AMERICAN CORPORATION ADMITS TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING TERRORIST ACTIVITIES TO PROTECT ITS OWN PROFITS . . . THE LAW FIRM OF SEARCY DENNEY SCAROLA BARNHART & SHIPLEY STEPS IN TO FIGHT FOR THE COLOMBIAN VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

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Shares are not doing too well these days.

Glad to see this didn't go away.

Google News search (fairly exhaustive when it comes to indexing the corporate/capitalist media) returns a Reuters story, Business Week, Democracy Now, and an MSN Money story.

Interesting that Business Week and MSN Money have stories. It shows they actually care - not about Colombian right-wing terrorism or human rights - but about the bottom-line and how it will affect their bank accounts!

CNN, Fox News, NPR, ABC, CBS - nothing. Some of them do have stories on past lawsuits, but they've all apparently chosen to ignore this new one.

to human beings, as long as they are all right-wing controlled. ONLY if they are right-wing controlled.

People don't know this is happening to them at the hands of their corporate media unless they start researching for themselves, unfortunately. Don't know it's going on if they know nothing else.

What a monstrous CRIME.

What they refuse to learn, their children or grandchildren will tell them one day, long after they've lived as inbred idiots, totally in the dark about the nature of their world and how it has been operating all these years.