Chiquita Banana Case Study

There were number of contraventions in this case. The first issue was regarding paying the 10% of proceeds as the carriage cost pertaining to the wheat contracts to Alia. This was later paid to the government. Alia was an intermediary company aiding in the completion of the overall dealings related to the case under analysis. Iraq was able to get the hard currency from this. Provisions were made to reimburse the payment portion received by AWB which further strengthened the ability to accumulate hard currency. In other words, the money from escrow account of UN was being used for purposes which were other than making payment for the commodities not permitted (Austin and Reynolds, 2012).

Imagine living in a country where you know you could die at any moment but don’t know how much longer till it happens. That was how much of the population of El Salvador used to feel when the government could not control the big coffee corporations. These out of control corporations, highly feared that the people would want to revolt against them so they hired murderers to kill innocent people to spread fear in the minds of the people of El Salvador. Fear, hate, and sorrow were the common feelings felt by the poor and innocent major population of El Salvador caused by the evil wrongdoings of the government during October 1979 – 16 January 1992. This is how the main character, Jose Luis, of the novel “Mother Tongue” by Demetria Martinez, felt before escaping his beautiful yet over constantly dangerous country, which depended on its cash crop, coffee beans to sell on a foreign market as the country’s main income. However, following the stock-market crash of 1929, a drop in coffee prices became apparent and affected everyone in El Salvador, but the poor especially. Making things worse, the glorious United States was funding the men whom were doing all the innocent killings with more weapons and money to increase their military power. So for Jose Luis the safe haven that he had escaped to was also blatantly funding the war that was killing so many innocent people he knew and had forced him to escape for his own safety. With nowhere else to go in order to find safety the United

John Soluri 's Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States, (Which for spatial and repetitive purposes, I will refer to as Banana Cultures for the remainder of the paper), introduces the reader to a world of corporate greed, consumption, and environmental change using the history of the common, everyday fruit, the banana. He explores the various political occurrences, health problems, and changes in mass media through the rise of the consumption of the banana in the United States, and around the globe.

The FARC is Colombia’s largest terror group. The FARC was established in 1964. The FARC began with farmers and agricultural workers who abandoned their positions to fight inequalities in Colombia. The FARC revolves around a Marxist-Leninist ideology. The FARCs early establishment suffered losses within its organization due to consistent military raids conducted by the Columbian Forces in order to disrupt or destroy the group. As the fight continued, those losses changed the leadership constantly through the years. The FARC has adapted and overcame many obstacles as the Colombian Government continues its fight against the terror group. As the fight continued through the years, the FARCs ability to change their tactics and weapons advanced. With more powerful weapons through the years and their ability to become more organized, the FARCs ability to fight back became more powerful.

Death squads in Honduras were targeting anti- coup activists had been running since june of 2009. The death squads in 1960s and 1970s the crimes seem to employ criminal networks such as drug trafficking, hitmen to do violent thing against the union(history of death squads). The government was using the death squads as a why to keep everybody in control, but then the death squads went crazy. Later in October, Rios montt ordered his “army” to carry out more death squads missions, through a letter called Carte Blanche. This mission was carried out through archivos, which was the intelligence init of his

Accordingly, there have been many controversies surrounding the indigenous land and their natural resources in Mexico and Central America throughout history. Struggles to save their land, culture, and receive constitutional rights have been a constant battle for indigenous populations. For example, the United Fruit Company (1899 - 1970) became prominent in trading tropical fruit from Central American plantations to the United States and Europe. The company comprises a model example of multinational influence extending deeply into the internal politics and acquisition of natural resources of native lands. The UFC came to gain 42% of Guatemala’s land, and set up their capital in the town of Bananera, where it made its headquarters, and corrupted every level of government and politics in Guatemala. UFCO had the unconditional support of right-wing dictators who maintained their power by terrorizing the people and arresting prominent citizens who were either killed on the spot or tortured in prison to extract confessions. A brutal civil war spanned from 1961-1996, and during one wave of repression, hundreds of thousands were killed and entire Indian villages were massacred. Of the killed people, nearly 83% were the Mayans, the indigenous group of

The Patriotic Union had a triumphant start and won several elections in 1986. Despite initial success, the party quickly dissolved when right-wing conservative forces and competing drug cartels killed several party leaders. This sparked a new wave of violence across Colombia’s political landscape as many of the Patriotic Union leaders and their political opposition were murdered. By the end of 1997, the United States of America had declared that the FARC and similar guerilla forces were terrorist groups, inciting a new dynamic of international tension. By 1999, the FARC had kidnapped an estimated 3,000 people.

An organized crime group or terrorist group known as FARC is scattered across in remote rural areas or dense jungles throughout Colombia. The FARC is still active, but significantly weakened. The FARC is fifty-three years old and is considered the oldest and largest guerrilla group in Columbia. The dense history behind the origins of FARC dates back sixty-nine years ago. Drug trafficking and kidnapping were not the heart of this group, but instead it was the message of political revolution.

As a Colombian born citizen who lived most of its childhood under the midst of war, and who lost a brother and father as a consequence, I cannot help but question if Plan Colombia is a plan for peace or a plan for war. Thus, I will like to examine the ethical issues involved in the way that the aid for Colombia is being spent. By doing so, I hope to answer the following question:

The main ambition of the FARC has been to create upheaval through bombings and political demonstrations (UNRIC, 2016). These rebellions continued well after the Escobar reign and into the 2000s. Demonstrations were put on by Colombian nationals in order to hold the FARC back, but to little avail. However, in 2012 the FARC announced that they would no longer be committing kidnappings and released many victims. It was at this time, though, that they began attacking infrastructure, mainly the energy sector (UNRIC, 2016). The FARC had already been stunting the conservation of biodiversity, playing into the heavy deforestation in Colombia because of the illegal drug trade, and holding Colombia back from fulling taking advantage of their resources by making many areas of the country no-go areas due to the threat of violence. After over 200 attacks, however, the FARC began to deteriorate and talks of a ceasefire and peace were on the

To fund this already outrageous war, Colombia thought of an even more heinous method. Drugs.Due to the government being very corrupt and Colombia having a lot of land, this wasn’t that hard. but due to this Colombia became one of the most lawless country and became the world’s biggest exporter of drugs. It’s not the people’s fault that they’re taking these drugs, it's the sellers fault. The sellers make it seem that everyone is taking it so you would take it as well. If everyone at your school were wearing the same shirt wouldn't you do it as well?If we fix the problems in Colombia, it comes with another plus factor, we would have eliminated the biggest source of drug

The late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century trends towards the continuing integration of the world economy have attracted the attention of geographers who seek to assess the impacts that globalization processes have at various geographic scales.1 The banana has a rich history of globalization, and for this reason, this essay will explore the commodity chain that shows the trajectory that the banana takes in order to be produced in the Caribbean, Latin America and elsewhere, then transported through the sea, next entering grocery stores throughout the world and finally consumed in the homes of millions. Commodity chain analyses allow modern day geographers to understand the process in which a resource is

Colombia is a Latin American country located in South America that has been ravaged by violence, starvation, and large-scale inequality between higher and lower classes. The chaos in Colombia has been between rebel forces and the government and has lasted for over fifty years. These rebel forces have fought to achieve their Liberalist lead goals of overthrowing the current democratic government of Colombia and replacing it with a communist government. La Violencia was the main contributor to the conflict between the resistance fighters of Colombia and the Colombian government that has brought on violence and terror from the violent actions between the Liberal and Conservative parties in the 1950’s. , which has directly brought on the violence and terror from the guerrilla groups.

It seems that in going through Chiquita’s company background, that they have been somewhat of a shady brand since its origin. Eli Black, CEO in 1970, paid a US$1.25 million bribe to Honduran official in return for them reducing taxes on the company’s banana exports. He then proceeded to kill himself. The next CEO, Carl Linder, was know for ‘bottom fishing’ and led the company into bankrupty in 2002. Next in line to assume the title was Agguire.

The company felt as if it had it arm-twisted behind its back but in actuality it didn’t. Its choice to pay the AUC was a decision that could have been adverted. Alternative actions could have been taken. For example it they could have hired security or move out of Colombia. Even though both of these are risky and high costing decisions, they still were decisions that were over looked just for financial gain. The company probably felt as if paying the AUC was cheaper than hiring its own personal to insure employee safety.