How the banana industry became so deadly
In a landmark case, the banana company Chiquita Brands International was found liable in a US court earlier in 2024 for financing a paramilitary group in Colombia. But it wasn't the first time the banana supplier and distributor has been found to have funded violence, albeit under a different name. In fact the banana industry has a long history of complicity in human rights abuses. Josh Toussaint-Strauss digs into Chiquita's past, discovering its links with historical atrocities in Colombia and drawing parallels with more recent revelations.
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00:13 Chiquita was the subject of a historic legal ruling
https://earthrights.org/case/doe-v-ch...
00:52 United Fruit Company and the Guatemalan coup
https://history.wsu.edu/rci/sample-re...
1:09 Corporate history of Chiquita Brands International
https://www.chiquita.com/the-chiquita...
1:48 The United Fruit Company controlled infrastructure https://books.google.co.uk/books/abou...
2:04 The banana wars and the US marines
https://archive.org/details/bananawar...
2:14 The United Fruit Company, a business profile
https://ia904507.us.archive.org/22/it...
2:26 Working for the United Fruit Company, a visual record
https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/pc/lar...
2:57 More than 30,000 people participated in the strike
https://books.google.co.uk/books/abou...
3:21 The 1928 banana massacre described in US State Department cables
https://kevincoleman.org/the-1928-mas...
4:38 Legal documents filed in US cases against Chiquita
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/22...
4:43 Chiquita paid the AUC nearly every month between 1997–2004
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-bo...
5:29 Chiquita allowed the AUC to use it’s ports
https://earthrights.org/wp-content/up...
5:34 Chiquita’s defence lawyers argued that the company had no choice
https://earthrights.org/wp-content/up...
5:59 The paramilitaries were responsible for killings, torture and kidnapping
https://www.abcolombia.org.uk/truth-c...
6:32 Colombian families have won a historic legal victory
https://www.theguardian.com/world/art...
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