![Explainer: Chiquita Ordered to Pay $38M for Financing Violent Paramilitary Forces in Colombia](https://www.jurist.org/features/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2024/06/Bananas_on_Display.jpg)
Chiquita’s money helped buy weapons and ammunition used to kill innocent victims. —US Government sentencing memo, 2008 In 2007, Chiquita — one of the world’s largest banana producers — admitted that for years it had been knowingly paying a Colombian terrorist organization to protect its operations in the country. The consequence was predictably violent, allegedly [...]