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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Banana Terrorism</title>
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		<title>Special Report: A Concrete Plan for Banana Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, there have been calls for justice on the industrial plantations &#8211; and in the nations that support them &#8211; for banana workers. Progress has been spotty, at best, mostly because of a disconnect between those laborers and consumers of the world&#8217;s most popular fruit. The Banana Land Campaign is a new effort to create that connection, and &#8211; unlike some others &#8211; it offers very concrete steps toward that goal. The Campaign is focusing on Colombia, where Chiquita (and possibly Dole) have made payments to terrorists, and where there&#8217;s a long history of banana-related bloodshed (see earlier posts on that topic.) Here&#8217;s a video from Jason Glaser &#8211; director of an in-progress documentary called &#8220;The Affected&#8221; &#8211; and one of the organizers of the campaign. These are the campaign&#8217;s &#8220;Six Things You Can Do&#8221; to help make the changes that just about anyone who knows banana history need to happen: 1. Sign a petition, here. 2. Write or call Dole and Chiquita&#8217;s (Chiquita doesn&#8217;t provide a email but you can write them on here) Corporate Social Responsibility Departments and ask them to make meaningful compensation to the victims of AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia) violence in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; updates Chiquita report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; reran its May, 2008 segment, called &#8220;The Price of Bananas,&#8221; on Chiquita&#8217;s payments to a Colombian paramilitaries. New information included the extradition of a member of that group to the U.S., confirmation by additional sources, and the expansion of an investigation of similar alleged payments made by Dole. Watch the report. Read a transcript. Related posts: Last year&#8217;s entry is here. Chiquita&#8217;s lawyer is Eric Holder, now U.S. attorney general. Here&#8217;s my March, 2008 entry. 400 Colombian families are suing the banana giant. My November, 2007 entry is here.]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;60 Minutes&quot; on Chiquita and Colombia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it fails to mention Chiquita&#8217;s long and bloody history in Colombia, the CBS News program&#8217;s report &#8211; which aired on May 11 &#8211; detailing the banana giant&#8217;s payments to terrorist groups in Colombia, and the consequences of those payments, is remarkably hard-hitting, and features a sit-down interview with Chiquita CEO Fernando Aguirre, who &#8211; to me &#8211; dodges a lot of questions. The big scoop here are accusations from a jailed Colombian terrorist that Dole and Fresh Del Monte also made payments. What do you think? Is the report fair? Is Chiquita ducking responsibility?]]></description>
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		<title>More Chiquita Trouble in Colombia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Chiquita paid a $25 million fine after admitting supporting terrorist groups in Colombia during 1990s and the early part of this decade. This week, the world&#8217;s largest banana company was sued by the families of five Florida missionaries killed by the AUC &#8211; the right-wing terror faction that the banana company was paid the money to. Three of the missionaries &#8211; David Mankins, Mark Rich, and Rick Tenenof &#8211; were kidnapped in 1993 and never seen again; they were declared dead nine years later. Steve Welsh and Timothy Van Dyke, also of the New Tribes Mission, were abducted and killed by the AUC in 1994. A lawyer for the families said that the news of Chiquita&#8217;s protection payments &#8220;started the ball rolling&#8221; on the suits, arguing that the money enabled the AUC to arm itself and expand activities. A Chiquita spokesperson called the allegation &#8220;absolutely untrue.&#8221; In an analysis on the Family Security Matters website, Douglas Farah writes: &#8220;Wow. And now we have evidence the FARC is kidnapping people, producing cocaine and building front companies. A sad and bloody story that will not end soon, and is dragged on by companies like Chiquita who place their business ventures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita sued for aiding Colombia torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s largest banana company admitted to supplying payoffs to United Self Defense of Colombia, a U.S State Departments designated terrorist group that Forbes magazine descried as being responsible for &#8220;kidnapping, torture, disappearance, rape, murder, beatings, extortion, and drug trafficking.&#8221; The payments, which totalled $1.4 million, occurred between 1997 and 2004. In 2007, Chiquita confessed to the bribes, which CEO Fernando Aguirre described as &#8220;protection payments to safeguard our workforce.&#8221; Finally, Aguirre added, the company found a &#8220;business solution,&#8221; and sold its Colombian assets. Chiquita has a bloody history in Colombia&#8230; &#8230;In 1929 it was responsible for quashing a banana worker&#8217;s strike; in a single bloody morning, 1,000 workers were killed by banana-company backed forces (the incident is retold in Gabriel Garcia Marquez&#8217;s &#8220;100 Years of Solitude&#8221;). Chiquita also continues to do business in Colombia &#8211; no longer directly, but through independent contractors who face the same situation working for Chiquita as they did when they were Chiquita. On November 14, 2007, 400 Colombian families filed an $8 billion suit against the banana giant, accusing it of abetting &#8220;torture and murder.&#8221; An attorney for the families said that the damages would be compensation for &#8220;terrorism, war crimes and wrongful death.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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