Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war.
The verdict marks a rare finding that blames a private U.S. company for human rights abuses in other countries.
The verdict Monday by a jury in West Palm Beach marks the first time the company has been found liable in any of multiple similar lawsuits pending elsewhere in U.S. courts, lawyers for the plaintiffs said. It also marks“This verdict sends a powerful message to corporations everywhere: profiting from human rights abuses will not go unpunished.
According to court documents, Chiquita paid the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia — known by its Spanish acronym AUC — about $1.7 million between 1997 and 2004. The AUC is blamed for the killings of thousands of people during those years. Reacting to the ruling on social media, Colombian president Gustavo Petro questioned why the U.S. justice system could “determine” Chiquita financed paramilitary groups, while judges in Colombia have not ruled against the company.
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