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Original article: Chiquita's 'Banana Republic' History Is Why It's Lobbying Against a 9/11 Victims Bill
"The Chiquita company, worldwide purveyor of bananas, fruits, and paramilitary groups, has spent $780,000 over the past year and a half to lobby against a 9/11 Victims' Bill, according to a report from The Daily Beast.
"But in writing wider legislation to implicate those that aided terrorism, Chiquita could be found liable for its past terrorist-funding actions in Colombia. Back in 2007, Chiquita was found to have given $1.7 million in a series of payments from 1997 to 2004 to a paramilitary group in Colombia, one designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. The company was forced to pay a $25 million fine in a guilty plea with the federal government. Chiquita claims the company was being extorted for funds by the group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia."
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