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Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

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Re: Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

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I'm curious about why nobody from Chiquita went to prison for financing a terrorist group. Random Afghans and Iraqis were kidnapped for Guantanamo or outright murdered for less.

An anti-communist paramilitary in Columbia? They aren't exactly going to top the US most wanted list.

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Great documentary that Frontline made about something similar called Firestone and the Warlord. Firestone paid warlord Charles Taylor money to ‘protect’ their rubber plantations (essentially extortion), this money ended up providing him almost all of his funding during the Liberian civil war and made him a major player. He is now in prison for war crimes for what he did during this period.

Re: Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

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I'm curious about why nobody from Chiquita went to prison for financing a terrorist group. Random Afghans and Iraqis were kidnapped for Guantanamo or outright murdered for less.

you might find the answer to this when looking out the window of the train as you head to the yearly jazz festival by the lake

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They have been fined $38m for killing 8 people, which amounts to a tad over 1% of their 2023 revenue.

I'm very happy that an example is being made of them to warn other corporations that committing murder to protect your profits may cause a slight dip in your next earnings report.

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Power assymetries and parasites leaching of off that. And the anti colonial is a horrific part of that, preventing societal adaption and chanfe to be able to compete. Its so bad, colonial history goto repeat itself in africa with chinese recolonialization. Thus proofing racism a effect, not a cause.

The biggest and longest time slave traders were in the middle east.

The best documented and most mentioned ones were the ones that were white.

Re: Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> curious about why nobody from Chiquita went to prison for financing a terrorist group It looks like the people who could be held individually criminally liable were in Colombia [1]. (I also imagine Chiquita gets points for notifying the DoJ versus getting caught.) > Random Afghans and Iraqis were kidnapped for Guantanamo or outright murdered for less To be fair, there is a world of difference between financing a fo…

And why were those Iraqis attacking American soldiers? Perhaps because the US invaded Iraq?

You're claiming that Iraqi's were so happy under Saddam's reign, that some even fought for him?
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