The case was brought by the families after Chiquita pleaded guilty in 2007 to paying a right-wing paramilitary group operating in Colombia.
for financing a paramilitary group in Colombia that killed eight men, and it has been ordered to pay the families $38.3 million in restitution.Bunches of Chiquita brand bananas are for sale at a grocery store in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 10, 2014.
“We’re very happy about the jury’s verdict, but you can’t escape that we’re talking about horrific abuses,” Marco Simons, a lawyer for EarthRights International, an environmental and human rights group, who represented one family in the legal claim, said. At that trial, Chiquita said it made $1.7 million in payments to the AUC between 1997 and 2004. The company said it did so after the AUC leader at the time threatened that Chiquita’s staff and property would be harmed or destroyed if the company did not pay up.
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