I hope they get dissolved

and getting by with murder, on a daily basis, with the full support of the U.S. Government, and its military, and the full backing of the unwitting US taxpayers who unknowingly supported military aggression against the Guatemalan President Arbenz, despised by the United Fruit Company, and the decades of covert ops and funding of subsequent US puppets protecting United Fruit, etc. throughout the Americas.



U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the
advocate of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
that installed the right-wing dictatorship

1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat



The Chiquita brand logo was commissioned in 1943 by United
Fruit.

A Democratic Spring Ends: June 27, 1954 (a Sunday)
Posted on 27 June 2014 |

THE PRICE OF BANANAS:


On this date, the democratically-elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was overthrown by CIA-paid and -trained mercenaries, making way for the United States to install a series of military dictatorships that waged a genocidal war against the indigenous Mayan Indians and against political opponents into the ‘90s. Human rights groups estimate that, between 1954 and 1990, the repressive operatives of successive military regimes murdered at least 100,000 and probably more than 200,000 civilians.

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Thanks for you comment, Up In Arms. You most definitely are not alone in the US, and throughout the world.

It's been going on for a long, long time. Not a word in the main stream media.

I hope some kind of justice will come of this.

Whatever information finally makes it to the taxpayers comes very slowly, seeps through over years, sometimes in response to journalists' efforts through using the Freedom of Information Act to get access to info. on actions in the Americas taken in the name of the US population without its knowledge.

Truly NOT Democratic, and NOT honorable. The term "Yanqui go home" has been in use such a long, long time.

"actions in the Americas taken in the name of the US population without its knowledge."

So much has happened in Central and South America, Africa, Arabia, E Europe, without the knowledge of the US population, which Americans would not support if they knew what was really going on. Why wasn't this in the news all these years? The banana plantations and the violence around them is not new. It's been happening for decades.

I hope these convictions really come to something meaningful. There is no way to bring back the villages and people killed, for crying out loud entire communities. The people who did this are skyring on their yachts and private planes with impunity like no one matters.

Yes, i attempted to make light of the situation, but my mind is having trouble wrapping itself around Chiquita death squads... Sounds like a trumper conspiracy fantasy to me. Very very saddening what humans will do to each other. Being murdered by a paid hit man team over fruit

The farmers and villagers were murdered for their land, to make way for banana plantations.

Near slave wages, no safety regulations to worry about, no pension plans, no social security, no decent working conditions, what more could a US based multinational doing business in the Americas want? They only want to allow the politicians who will let them inhumanely exploit the captive workers who have no way to move anywhere, since everywhere they can reach is the same.

The middle class is simply closed to the majority of these abused people.

This history is one reason I have never been much a fan of Holder.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/lawyer-for-chiquita-in-co_b_141919.html

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Do not expect these recommendations to be carried forward if Eric Holder decides to forgo his lucrative corporate law practice at Covington & Burling and accept the U.S. Attorney General position for which many believe he is the top contendor. Eric Holder would have a troubling conflict of interest in carrying out this work in light of his current work as defense lawyer for Chiquita Brands international in a case in which Colombian plaintiffs seek damages for the murders carried out by the AUC paramilitaries - a designated terrorist organization. Chiquita has already admitted in a criminal case that it paid the AUC around $1.7 million in a 7-year period and that it further provided the AUC with a cache of machine guns as well.

Indeed, Holder himself, using his influence as former deputy attorney general under the Clinton Administration, helped to negotiate Chiquita’s sweeheart deal with the Justice Department in the criminal case against Chiquita. Under this deal, no Chiquita official received any jail time. Indeed, the identity of the key officials involved in the assistance to the paramilitaries were kept under seal and confidential. In the end, Chiquita was fined a mere $25 million which it has been allowed to pay over a 5-year period. This is incredible given the havoc wreaked by Chiquita’s aid to these Colombian death squads.

According to Mario Iguaran, the Attorney General of Colombia, Chiquita’s payments to the AUC paramilitaries led to the murder of 4000 civilians in the banana region of Colombia and furthered the growth of the paramilitaries throughout Colombia and their violent takeover of numerous Colombian regions. Iguaran, in response to the claims of both Chiquita and Eric Holder himself that Chiquita was somehow forced to pay “protection” to the paramilitaries (see, Washington Post and Conde Nast Portfolio), stated unequivocally that “[t]his was not payment of extortion money. It was support for an illegal armed group whose methods included murder.”

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There were people in the Obama Administration I didn't like at all, Holder being one of them.

That's going too far.

"You can't go home from there, Holder. You made your choice."

Thank you, PufPuf23. No one more monstrous than AUC paras. They have even used chainsaws to publicly execute political enemies to strike fear so deeply into the hearts and minds of everyone who sees and hears about them no one will dare to go against them if he/she hopes to die of old age, instead.

Justice.

on the part of corporate media, which has usually served the interests of the military/industrial complex.

Now you know, if you have time, you will be deep in thought for a long time researching Colombian history, with total US support and involvement for the last 100 years, essentially a feudal system with a very small group of oligarchs at the top and a number of powerful US-based multinationals exploiting ALL Colombian resources, fruit, mining, palm oil plants for US products, coffee, you name it, and a country teeming with excessively poor people, some indigenous, some the descendents of former slaves, all treated with violence and total disrespect.

There's also coca, which gets processed into cocaine for U.S. drug users.

It's an obscenity. Speaking of obscene, there's also a tourism sex industry which gets US horndogs making pilgrims to Colombia to seek the temporarily virgin young women.

SEPT. 2, 2018 / 9:16 PM

By Ray Downs

Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Colombia's Attorney General's Office on Friday charged 13 former Chiquita executives for financing paramilitary death squads that are accused of killing more than 4,000 people.

Between 1997 and 2004, the executives of the Florida-based corporation paid $1.7 million to the United Self-Defenders of Colombia, or AUC in its Spanish initials, prosecutors said. The company already admitted to making the payments in 2007 in U.S. court when it settled with the Justice Department for funding terrorism and paid a $25 million fine.

Chiquita has said that it was "forced" to pay off the AUC.

"To be clear, there is no allegation that Chiquita itself committed any of the crimes perpetrated by the Colombian terrorist groups," the company said in a statement at the time. "The only allegation is that Chiquita should be held responsible for these crimes by virtue of the money that it was forced to pay."

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