Going Bananas in Columbia

April 5, 2007 11:13 AM

In a scandal with wide-ranging implications for US-Colombia ties, Chiquita Brands International, the mega-fruit company, agreed earlier this month to pay $25 million in fines to the US government for making payments of more than $1.7 million to a Colombian terrorist paramilitary group. [From The Nation]. More from the National Security Archive and the LA Times.
posted by j-urb (11 comments total)

dupe
posted by delmoi at 11:17 AM on April 5, 2007

eh, that's odd. when i searched for "Columbia" i didn't see it.
posted by j-urb at 11:21 AM on April 5, 2007

Next time, try "Colombia."
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 11:28 AM on April 5, 2007

I hope you searched for Colombia, but i'm guessing you didn't judging by the tags.
posted by chunking express at 11:28 AM on April 5, 2007

United Fruit EVIL?!??! NO WAY!
posted by Faux Real at 11:33 AM on April 5, 2007

Bananas aren't really even that good anyway.
posted by Divine_Wino at 11:35 AM on April 5, 2007

ah Colombia (doh!)
posted by j-urb at 11:40 AM on April 5, 2007

It won't matter anyway, after bananas go extinct.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 11:44 AM on April 5, 2007

That's 25 million that we can [put to good use](http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0405/p99s01-duts.html).
posted by 2sheets at 11:45 AM on April 5, 2007

dammit, I'm used to markup
posted by 2sheets at 11:46 AM on April 5, 2007

You're used to Markdown.
posted by chunking express at 11:51 AM on April 5, 2007