Be forewarned. Fun Reading ahead.From the Washington Post
Chiquita seeks dismissal of Colombia death lawsuit
From the article:
The lawsuits claim Chiquita should be held liable for allegedly providing material support to the AUC (Colombian right-wing paramilitary group] in the form of cash, weapons such as AK-47s, military supplies and even access to its banana ports for cocaine trafficking.
In return, lawyers for the hundreds of Colombian plaintiffs claim, the AUC used violence to drive out or kill Colombian labor leaders, attack rival left-wing FARC guerrillas and their sympathizers, and essentially become rulers of a region encompassing some 200 Chiquita banana farms.
For its part, the banana company says it had no choice but to giv emoney to the AUC, and other groups.
Chiquita …contends that it was forced to pay both the AUC and FARC [leftleaning paramilitary group] as a form of extortion and that the company had no control over violent acts by those groups. The two paramilitary groups have fought for decades in Colombia’s bloody civil war, and Levy questioned whether the AUC was engaged in "terrorism" in the legal sense.
Damn. They don’t even deny paying off paramilitary groups? Call me cynical, but if you have to pay off kidnappers and militiamen just to be in business, maybe you shouldn’t be in business.
Sheesh! People think I exaggerate when I tell them that Chiquita’s a murderer, but they aren’t even denying it! Oi vey.Â