Chiquita Ordered to Pay $38 Million for Funding Colombian Death Squads
Chiquita Ordered to Pay $38 Million for Funding Colombian Death Squads
American banana company Chiquita has been linked to civilian massacres in Colombia and ordered to pay $38 million in a historic judgment.
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Good. But they should be taken for everything they have.
What does it take for a company to be dismantled for crimes in the US?
32 0 ReplyDoing crimes that rock the boat instead of being business as usual
28 0 Replyactive invasion and occupation by socialist forces
22 0 ReplyApparently a whole fuck of a lot.
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I wish the 8 was a B.
29 0 Reply$38 🅱️illion
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3 billion million
15 0 Replyand non-us billions please
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If my only consequence for organizing death squads was was to pay 0.5% of my annual income, I have a few people I’d be bumping off too.
28 0 Reply38 million?
good to know that we never got rid of blood price, but only for companies
24 0 ReplySo, basically nothing.
16 0 ReplyThat’s the point of fines, they only punish little people. Corporations and the rich just absorb them like there nothing.
14 0 ReplyYep. For capitalists fines are just the cost of doing business. If that cost is low enough, they will break the associated laws.
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Yearly revenue... 31 billion dollars. 38 million is nothing for destabilising a country for decades.
They make 154k per employee, apparently... Not surprising when you consider they're paying their plantation workers 400 dollars a month.
12 0 ReplyAny problem that can be resolved by money isn't a problem for these companies.
7 0 ReplySpare change
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