Chiquita, one of the world’s largest banana producers, has been ordered to pay a total of $38.3 million to the families of eight victims of the AUC, which was a far-right paramilitary group that ...

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 crash in Mount Olive involved a Chiquita Banana 18-wheeler and a log truck.

Banana company Chiquita Brands International has been found liable for financing a far-right Colombian paramilitary group and ordered to pay $38.3 million in damages to the families of eight men ...

A Florida jury ruled Monday that Chiquita Brands International, the banana conglomerate, is liable for financing a paramilitary group in Colombia that killed eight men, and it has been ordered to ...

Chiquita said in the 2007 case that it had paid ransoms to the FARC and ELN before it turned to the AUC in 1997. An aerial view of banana plantations in Apartado, Antioquia department, Colombia ...

Chiquita Banana has been found liable by a Florida jury for financing a far-right Columbian paramilitary group, and has been ordered to pay $38.3m to the families of victims killed by the ...

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.

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