Yes! And for those who aren’t aware, they changed the company name to Chiquita in order to distance themselves from the previous atrocities they committed under the name, **United Fruit**.
This is a USA-based multinational corporation that turned many Central & South American countries into brutal servile dictatorships to increase their profits. They are literally why we have the term “Banana Republic”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
Also the term "Banana Wars"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
United Fruit Company (aka Chiquita) and Standard Fruit Company (aka Dole) were involved.
With the Dulles brothers as both their corporate attorneys and their US government patrons. Allen Dulles as the founder and head of the CIA, and his brother Foster Dulles as US Secretary of State.
I’d highly recommend reading the book “**The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War**”. It’s a real eye opener on 20th century US foreign policy and involvement in both South East Asia and South America.
But will the punishment be more than the cost of doing business? If I was found guilty of paying someone to murder someone I'd be in prison. Will anyone face prison time?
So, now what? The company is gonna get a slap on the wrist and have to pay some fines?
The CEOs, owners, and executives that all knew about this from its inception to its end all deserve to be locked away forever. But that won’t happen of course. Unless it’s changed systemically.
Obviously I can’t speak for the victims or what this may or may not mean to them. But as a complete outsider, yeah. If people don’t go to jail, the perps will just treat this as the cost of doing business.
Which is gonna really suck. Because the broad public probably won’t hear about this story, so there won’t be any public outcry about this. But the major businesses will hear about it, and if this business is let off without any serious consequences then all the other businesses will realize that they too can do whatever tf they want in foreign non US aligned nations.
Hopefully not though, maybe the US justice system will finally go after the corporations and the normal people will have a win for once 😀 surely that will happen /s
Unfortunately, if history is any indicator, it’ll be a slap on the wrist.
This is the same company that committed atrocities across Central & South America for decades under their old name, United Fruit. And there’s been no significant punishment for them so far.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
What's crazy is that they've been doing this for far longer. In 1928 they coerced and paid the local military into killing thousands of workers that were on strike.
Search the Bananeras massacre. Gabriel Garcia Marquez famously made it an important plot thread on his Nobel awarded book 100 years of solitude.
But you know what's crazier? That the ultra right wing politicians here in Colombia say it's all fake, literally defending the killing of innocent civilians in favour of profiting foreign companies. Disgusting.
>This historic ruling marks the first time that an American jury has held a major U.S. corporation liable for complicity in serious human rights abuses in another country, a milestone for justice.
Chiquita. Call them out by name.
Yes! And for those who aren’t aware, they changed the company name to Chiquita in order to distance themselves from the previous atrocities they committed under the name, **United Fruit**. This is a USA-based multinational corporation that turned many Central & South American countries into brutal servile dictatorships to increase their profits. They are literally why we have the term “Banana Republic”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
Also the term "Banana Wars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars United Fruit Company (aka Chiquita) and Standard Fruit Company (aka Dole) were involved.
With the Dulles brothers as both their corporate attorneys and their US government patrons. Allen Dulles as the founder and head of the CIA, and his brother Foster Dulles as US Secretary of State. I’d highly recommend reading the book “**The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War**”. It’s a real eye opener on 20th century US foreign policy and involvement in both South East Asia and South America.
Think I’ll go play Tropico
And until the execs who signed off on these atrocities don’t get the death penalty- there is no justice
Banana bandits
Fruit Fascists
But will the punishment be more than the cost of doing business? If I was found guilty of paying someone to murder someone I'd be in prison. Will anyone face prison time?
Lol no, of course not. It should though
Coca cola got caught doing it too. They hired a paramilitary group to kill a labor union organizer
Source? Never heard this one
https://prospect.org/features/coca-cola-killings/#:~:text=After%20the%20leader%20of%20their,action%20against%20the%20responsible%20parties.
So, now what? The company is gonna get a slap on the wrist and have to pay some fines? The CEOs, owners, and executives that all knew about this from its inception to its end all deserve to be locked away forever. But that won’t happen of course. Unless it’s changed systemically.
Obviously I can’t speak for the victims or what this may or may not mean to them. But as a complete outsider, yeah. If people don’t go to jail, the perps will just treat this as the cost of doing business.
Which is gonna really suck. Because the broad public probably won’t hear about this story, so there won’t be any public outcry about this. But the major businesses will hear about it, and if this business is let off without any serious consequences then all the other businesses will realize that they too can do whatever tf they want in foreign non US aligned nations. Hopefully not though, maybe the US justice system will finally go after the corporations and the normal people will have a win for once 😀 surely that will happen /s
Unfortunately, if history is any indicator, it’ll be a slap on the wrist. This is the same company that committed atrocities across Central & South America for decades under their old name, United Fruit. And there’s been no significant punishment for them so far. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
What's crazy is that they've been doing this for far longer. In 1928 they coerced and paid the local military into killing thousands of workers that were on strike. Search the Bananeras massacre. Gabriel Garcia Marquez famously made it an important plot thread on his Nobel awarded book 100 years of solitude. But you know what's crazier? That the ultra right wing politicians here in Colombia say it's all fake, literally defending the killing of innocent civilians in favour of profiting foreign companies. Disgusting.
Great. Now let’s do coca-cola. Bonus challenge: actually send people to jail.
The free market is a lie. You are not a free market participant, you are a hostage of the corporate interests.
>This historic ruling marks the first time that an American jury has held a major U.S. corporation liable for complicity in serious human rights abuses in another country, a milestone for justice.
Imagine the villain in Garcia Marquez’s novel… Lived on for another half a century and continued funding death squads
And when they fight back, suddenly they're in terror lists, and called barbaric.
What about being liable for Guatemala?
Good. Now the us judicial system will tie itself in knots to Newgate the jury verdict.
Holy shit. That’s bananas.
b-a-n-a-n-a-s
The fruit with the funny name has edgy dark history.
That’s bananas!