US is blocking Colombian trial against Chiquita executives

United States authorities are not collaborating with Colombian justice in its criminal investigation of (former) executives of Chiquita Brands, the banana company that admitted to have paid US$1.7 million to paramilitary death squads in Colombia.

In an interview with Medellin newspaper El Colombiano, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation says that the U.S. State Department has not responded to calls by Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office to hand over the names, birth dates and social security numbers of the executives.

Colombia started a criminal investigation into the ties between the banana multinational and local death squads after the company settled with U.S. justice and paid a $25 million fine. The Prosecutor General wants the multinational to respond to Colombian justice and pay compensation to victims of paramilitary crimes financed with Chiquita money.

"Through the Prosecutor General's International Affairs Office, on two occasions we reiterated that they respond to our request for judicial assistance. I don't know what is happening with the U.S. executives, but one would think there would be an immediate response," prosecutor Dario Garzon Garzon told the newspaper ...

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the former attorney who represented Chiquita during legal trouble regarding its use of death squads, and supplying arms to them, as well.

If the administration has any questions they want to pursue, they should avail themselves of the opportunity of speaking directly with former AUC death squad mega narco-trafficker, Salvatore Mancuso who is right there in Washington, D.C., and he's going to be available for questioning for years to come, in the US prison system.

He already mentioned to 60 Minutes that NO ONE from the US government bothered to ask him questions about the relationship they had with the death squads.

Apparently we are being told everything powerful US interests want in countries controlled by fascist US puppets will happen, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.