US EditionUS banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads
- Chiquita Brands was ordered to pay $38.3 million to families of eight people killed by a Colombian paramilitary group it funded during the civil war.
- The victims' families brought the case against Chiquita, which had confessed in 2007 to financing the group designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. Department of Justice.
- The jury found Chiquita liable for funding the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known for human rights abuses, as confirmed by EarthRights, an NGO.
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Chiquita Ordered to Pay $38 Million for Funding Colombian Death Squads
In a historic first, Chiquita Brands International has been ordered to pay the families of murdered Colombians after a court found the U.S.-based banana giant had privately financed death squads. After a lengthy legal battle spanning 17 years, a Florida court ordered Chiquita to pay $38 million to the families of death squad victims. This landmark case is the first in which an American corporation has been found liable for human rights abuses co…
Soud ve Spojených státech uznal nadnárodní ovocnářskou společnost Chiquita odpovědnou za financování kolumbijské polovojenské skupiny, která má na svědomí smrt osmi civilistů. Společnost dováží banány i do Česka.
U.S. Jury holds Chiquita liable for Colombian death squad's umrder of banana workers
In what case litigants are calling the first time an American jury has held a U.S. corporation legally liable for atrocities abroad, federal jurors in Florida on Monday found that Chiquita Brands International financed a Colombian paramilitary death squad that murdered, tortured, and terrorized workers in a bid to crush labor unrest in the 1990s and 2000s. The federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida found the banana giant responsible for fundi…
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