Chiquita brands executives involved in an investigation by la Fiscalia

phillyguy says on Dec 19, 2007, 09:28:

Some typical PC logic. This company did something bad 70 years ago, when the execs in question weren't even born, so they deserve to be jailed.

According to the article you cite, the company claims that the payments were protection money, and that they paid it to both the AUC and the FARC. Gee, businessmen being extorted in Colombia, who would believe that far-out claim? Everyone knows that extortion is impossible in Colombia due to the super-effective Colombian justice system.

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Robert Jorge says on Dec 19, 2007, 10:45:

60 to 70 years ago, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki, Hitachi all used slave labor. Mitsubishi I recall made a lot of the Japanese planes that actually attacked Pearl Harbor and that the US fought against in the Pacific theatre. And that is relevant now?

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Golden Boy says on Dec 19, 2007, 13:19:

Wasn't United Fruit actually bought by Chiquita? So Chiquita becomes automatically guilty? 70 years ago?

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Tomacoma says on Dec 19, 2007, 17:36:

Yea, little has changed. Would you expect anything different?

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Tomacoma says on Dec 19, 2007, 17:36:

Just an extensionn of the status quo...does anyone remember Gueatemala an Arbenz and the CIA?

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Robert Jorge says on Dec 19, 2007, 20:45:

Oops, sorry, I was thinking of something else.

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Robert Jorge says on Dec 20, 2007, 11:55:

Yep, it is incredible, isn't it? Everything is cool while the company is being extorted, but as soon as it gives up to go to safer and more profitable countries, SCANDALOUS!

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