Cracking Down on Corporate Abuses Abroad
Anastasia Moloney for The American Prospect reports on the tangled relationships between American multinationals and Colombian paramilitary groups: "In March, Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands International pled guilty in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to making regular protection payments to Colombian right-wing paramilitary groups totaling some $1.7 million between 2001 and 2004."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091407LA.shtml
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Colombia Outraged Over Chiquita Fine
Colombia's interior minister slammed a U.S. judge's approval of a $25 million fine for Chiquita Brands International Inc., saying Tuesday the company was able to "purchase impunity" for its payments to a drug-funded militia responsible for killing thousands of Colombians.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/20845192/for/cnbc/
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+abuse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chiquita
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091407LA.shtml
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Colombia Outraged Over Chiquita Fine
Colombia's interior minister slammed a U.S. judge's approval of a $25 million fine for Chiquita Brands International Inc., saying Tuesday the company was able to "purchase impunity" for its payments to a drug-funded militia responsible for killing thousands of Colombians.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/20845192/for/cnbc/
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+abuse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chiquita
rudkla - 15. Sep, 10:57
