Paramilitarism in Colombia

Case Report: Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia BUSA 4980 Chiquita Brands international was founded in 1899 after the merger of United Fruit Company and the Boston Fruit Company. As bananas be came more of a staple in every home so do Chiquita Bananas. Bananas are know to mainly grown in tropical places like Central America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Chiquita decided to have operations out of Colombia. During this time there was turmoil in Colombia and different terror groups form “against

Abstract: Chiquita Brands International and its leaders learned a very hard lesson about paying off terrorist groups to protect their employees. Over the past 25 years, no place has been more perilous for companies than Colombia, a country that is finally beginning to emerge from the effects its Colombian banana subsidiaries had made protection payments to terrorist groups from 1997 through 2004. The Justice Department began an investigation, focusing on the role and conduct of Chiquita and some

Case Study: Chiquita in Colombia: Funding Paramilitary Groups to Protect Business and Employees Presented by: Valerie Reese Case Summary: United Fruit Company, a company that grows bananas in Central America and exports them to North America and Europe, became Chiquita Brands International in 1984 through a series of mergers and control changes (Maurer, 2012, p. 485). Chiquita Brands relocated its headquarters to Cincinnati, Ohio, and began to expand its holdings

issues, such as the provision of humanitarian assistance to the victims and the search for a peace agreement while still undertaking offensive military operations. My hometown, Medellin (Colombia), is a city marked by violence, place of arrival of hundreds of victims every month, cradle of the paramilitarism in Colombia and witness of a growing wealthy class that shines in a background of economic and gender inequality. Responding to this context, I began to worry about human rights violations back during

Security Archive demonstrate that the CIA and high level U.S. diplomats were aware of these kinds of attacks as early as 1994. Additionally, Colombia is now only behind Sudan with the world’s second most displaced citizens or refugees within their own country. The cause of that displacement is the paramilitaries, along with the Colombian military. Colombia contains tremendous natural resources such as oil, gold, and silver. However, there are millions of peasant