First Chiquita paid fines of $25 million in 2007 for having paid “protection money” to the AUC, a right wing para-military organization in Colombia who are on the U.S. government’s list of terrorist organizations. (Read more here.)
Now they are being sued for having paid money to the FARC, a left wing group also on the United States’ terrorist list… (Read the article here.)
Isn’t it time for consumers to put their money where their values are? (Read more here.)