Chiquita Brands International has lost a suitcase aimed at preventing the US Securities and Exchange Commission from releasing documents related to the banana giant’s payments to now-defunct Colombian paramilitary umbrella…
U.S. banana company Chiquita Brands International claimed press, individuals and organizations “seek to distort the facts” surrounding payments made by to Colombian paramilitary organization AUC.
Members of paramilitary organization AUC told the U.S. embassy that the 1997 Mapiripan massacre in central Colombia was “well coordinated in advance” with (elements of) the army, according to a…
The Colombian military tried to “cover up” the responsibility of a high-level commander in the 1997 Mapiripan massacre by falsely implicating a lower-ranked official, the state department said in a…