Dole and Del Monte also facing crimes against humanity charges for financing death squads in Colombi

[Judi Lynn]

Dole and Del Monte also facing crimes against humanity charges for financing death squads in Colombia: report
written by Adriaan Alsema February 4, 2017



Colombia’s prosecution is set to charge almost 200 companies, including multinationals like Dole and Del Monte, for financing death squads in the banana-growing region of the country, according to Blu Radio.

The radio station reported contents of the alleged set of indictments a day after the country’s chief prosecutor announced his office would charge companies for crimes against humanity for their alleged voluntary support for the paramilitary death squads.

Among the companies facing crimes against humanity charges is Chiquita’s subsidiary.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/dole-belmonte-also-accused-crimes-humanity-financing-banana-death-squads-colombia-report/

LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141691093

[Laffy Kat]

1. The sins of big business.

Get used to it. Our crooked gov't will get them off. Price of doing business, etc., etc.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Chiquita guilty of crimes against humanity in Colombia?

Chiquita guilty of crimes against humanity in Colombia?
written by Adriaan Alsema February 3, 2017


Companies who financed paramilitary death squads in Colombia’s banana growing region, including Chiquita’s subsidiary, will face charges for crimes against humanity, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Thursday.

The prosecution decision is unprecedented as never before have private enterprises been charged with crimes against humanity.

The charges will be brought before the transitional justice system that seeks justice for the 8 million victims of Colombia’s 52-year war, the majority of whom fell victim to paramilitary groups financed and supported by politicians and businesses.

The banana companies that operated in the northwestern region of Uraba are either accused, or in the case of Chiquita convicted, for financing the “Banana Block” of paramilitary umbrella organization AUC that killed thousands of Colombians.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/chiquita-guilty-crimes-humanity-colombia/

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. This is us, down the road, if we are not careful.

OUR gov't overthrew the So. American countries which tried to oppose Dole and Chiquita and other conglomerates.
Years and years of that shit, then we wonder why the native people are fleeing in terror.

[Judi Lynn]

4. The ones who rage against these people are the most ignorant ones among us.

They don't seem to realize how they would react if these things were happening to them.

They are so stupid they would probably worship those who are powerful enough to torture, terrorize, and massacre them, their families and their loved ones in order to steal their land to use for businesses, or kill them if they refused to work under wildly dangerous conditions for next to nothing. In Colombia, death squads have gone to great lengths to instill terror in the people by publicly hacking their neighbors or family members alive with chainsaws or machetes, forcing them all to witness it.

They have always gained even more cooperation from the terrified population through their public exhibition of atrocities.

Normal human beings try to escape fatally destructive conditions put upon them by the greedy fascists who don't value their lives at all.