Blood diamonds aren't nearly as nutritious as blood bananas! The paramilitaries of Columbia are some of the most brutal and vicious criminal gangs in the world today. Chiquita is being fined 25 million bucks by the US Government for paying 1.7 million in protection money to a listed terrorist group. The Self-Defense Committees of Columbia collected the cash between 1997 and 2004.
According to prosecutor Johnathan Malis, "Chiquita was funding the bullets which killed innocent Colombians." The executives who ordered the payments will not be prosecuted as part of a deal struck with the government in March. read more »
