Chiquita ordered to pay $38.3 million to victims of paramilitary group. Jurors at a federal trial in South Florida found the banana giant liable for funding a violent group in Colombia in the late ...

A Florida jury on Monday found banana company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).

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Chiquita maintains that banana company was a victim, too. During his last opportunity to address jurors, Cioffi said the plaintiffs' argument was no more than "sound bites and cherrypicked ...

Following a civil case brought by eight Colombian families whose relatives were killed by the AUC, Chiquita has been ordered to pay $38.3m (£30m) in damages to the families.

The world has known something was amiss in the banana business for a while. In Colombia, “Noticias Uno” had reported on Chiquita’s association with the AUC since the early 2000s.