Chiquita admits paying millions to terrorists in Colombia

Don't eat a banana now it linked to terorism? I know what the lady of the labels hide in the hat! and in the skirt, forget about potassium.....(chlorate).

I know this case slipped away from us but we will win on a-peel.

Rives wrote:

YOU DISGUSTING COWARDS !
OBVIOUSLY YOU WENT TO DUKE WHERE YOU LEARNED HOW TO SHAFT PEOPLE.
I HOPE THAT YOU SHARE A JAIL CELL WITH BUBBA AND HIS WIFE MIKE NIFONG.

???????? WHAT???????

Here we go again. Another large corporation paying it's way out of prosecution. These corporate officers made payments that are resposible for hundreds, even thousands of deaths in Columbia. These guys should go to jail. If they didn't want to make the payments, then they should have packed up their business and gone elsewhere. Shame on you Chiquita

No more banana's!!!

We should BOYCOT them.

Yes, we have no bananas, bananas from Columbia today...

It's just business. Neither the Columbian or US government could guarantee the safety of their employees so they did what they had to do. They were not even designated as a terrorist organization until '01. True, they continued to pay after that but $25MM is just another justice department publicity grab.

Han Solo wrote:

Here we go again. Another large corporation paying it's way out of prosecution. These corporate officers made payments that are resposible for hundreds, even thousands of deaths in Columbia. These guys should go to jail. If they didn't want to make the payments, then they should have packed up their business and gone elsewhere. Shame on you Chiquita

You blame this on big buisiness which is wrong. These companies went to Colombia to farm bannanas because of cheap land and labor not to get involved with terrorists. If anything blame the terrorists groups that operate outside of the legal government. This is what is wrong with Latin America. NO morales and that translates into thugs who carry guns and kill innocent people. Think about it. If you have to carry a gun to go to the grocery store, then your country sucks!!!!

Why didn't they just go to President Clinton and explained their situation before they started making payments in 1997? He could have helped. LOL

If the cost of the 1.7M was passed on to the consumers, I guess bananas will be going up in price now that we have to absorb 25M. We'll be eating mangos and guavas.

basta wrote:

Yes, we have no bananas, bananas from Columbia today...

I love to suck a big fat banana from Colombia, not Columbia you idiot

Stand By Me wrote:

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You blame this on big buisiness which is wrong. These companies went to Colombia to farm bannanas because of cheap land and labor not to get involved with terrorists. If anything blame the terrorists groups that operate outside of the legal government. This is what is wrong with Latin America. NO morales and that translates into thugs who carry guns and kill innocent people. Think about it. If you have to carry a gun to go to the grocery store, then your country sucks!!!!

Can you be any more ignorant! These "thugs" exist because companies ( such as chiquita) are funding them with millions of dollars. Oh and, by the way, try walking around Overtown Miami, you'll need a gun to go to the grocery store there too. So, according to your logic, this country sucks as well. Sir, your ignorance is tragic.

EVERY single big company has been paying to AUC or FARC or ELN in Colombia. And not only big companies. There were no choice to be made: get in troubles or pay. So, what's strange with it? You should live there and understand before judging. You have to protect your investment and employers. Who do you call? Colombian government? US embassy? Real life is different.
So, let's see who's next... Drummond, BP, Exxon?

Kids, the company bought off the terrorists for less than $2 million, the government buyoff was $25 million. Which was the better value?

BANANAGATE!

Hater wrote:

Does anything good come out of Colombia? Talk about a putrid, third world toilet!

Yes, one good thing does come out of Colombia. Their women.
They are some of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Oh yeah, and emeralds come from Colombia.

Hater wrote:

Does anything good come out of Colombia? Talk about a putrid, third world toilet!

I can see from your post that you're a pretty ignorant, bigoted individual. Allow me to educate you about what Colombia truly is:

Some of the friendliest, nicest, most hospitable people in the whole world
The most beautiful scenery imaginable
The oldest democracy in Latin America
The world's most beautiful women
The 'Carnaval de Barranquilla'- one of the best carnivals in the world!
Incredible music, i.e Cumbia, vallenato, bambuco, joropo etc. Produces great salsa too.
The best spoken spanish in the world
The world's best gold museum,'el Museo de Oro' in Bogotá
The Colombian army has been catalogued as the best fighting land force in South America
Lasik eye surgery was invented in Colombia in 1948
Near-perfect weather year round
Large, modern cities, i.e Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, etc.

Colombia enjoys one of the richest biological areas on the planet
The most fauna and flora per unit meter in the whole world
The second most fauna and flora overall
The highest amphibian biodiversity in the world
The largest number of bird species in the world
The third largest number of mammals in the world
The fourth largest producer of water on the planet

The only country in the world that is Caribbean, Amazonian, Andean, and Pacific
The world's richest coffee
The world's leading producer of emeralds
The world's second leading exporter of cut flowers.
The world's fourth leading producer of coal (alternative energy)
The world's tallest coastal mountain range
The world's only snow-capped coastal mountain range

Nobel-Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'(considered by many the best book of the 20th Century)
The world's greatest living painter and sculptor, Fernando Botero
Colombian scientist Manuel Elkin Patarroyo developed a vaccine for malaria that is 70% effective
Shakira-'feel the conga, let me see you move like you come from Colombia'
Juanes- winner of 12 Latin Grammys
Gold Glove winner MLB Baseball player Edgar Renteria
Carlos Vives
Juan Pablo Montoya
Academy-award nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno
John Leguizamo
Model/actress Sofia Vergara
Great Footballer (soccer player to you) Carlos 'El Pibe' Valderrama
Former NFL Player Fuad Reveiz and his record-breaking 31 consecutive field goals during the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
The world's most successful telenovela,'Betty la Fea', which has a remake in the USA on ABC as 'Ugly Betty'.

I hope I've educated you a little bit more about Colombia.

Here's some websites about the beautiful country of Colombia:

http://skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php...
http://theotherlookofcolombia.com/
www.ColombianBlog.com

Hater wrote:

Does anything good come out of Colombia? Talk about a putrid, third world toilet!

I can see from your post that you're a pretty ignorant, bigoted individual. Allow me to educate you about what Colombia truly is:

Some of the friendliest, nicest, most hospitable people in the whole world
The most beautiful scenery imaginable
The oldest democracy in Latin America
The world's most beautiful women
The 'Carnaval de Barranquilla'- one of the best carnivals in the world!
Incredible music, i.e Cumbia, vallenato, bambuco, joropo etc. Produces great salsa too.
The best spoken spanish in the world
The world's best gold museum,'el Museo de Oro' in Bogotá
The Colombian army has been catalogued as the best fighting land force in South America
Lasik eye surgery was invented in Colombia in 1948
Near-perfect weather year round
Large, modern cities, i.e Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, etc.