Thursday, August 18, 2011

Para-Business Gone Bananas: Chiquita Brands in Colombia



[i]United States of America vs. Chiquita Brands International Sentencing Memo. Submitted March 13, 2007 by Jonathan M. Malis. Accessed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/20070313_sentencing_memo.pdf on July 10, 2011.
[ii]Ibid
[iii] Chernick, Marc. “The FARC-EP: From Liberal Guerrillas to Marxist Rebels to Post-Cold War Insurgents” in Terror, Insurgencies, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts. Ed. Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O’Leary, and John Tirman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2007) pg. 53
[iv]Ibid 60
[v]Ibid 57
[vi]Ibid
[vii]Does (1-144) and and Perezes (1-95) v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Case No. 9:08-cv-80465-KAM. Second Amended Complaint. Submitted July 5, 2011 by Attorney Terrence P. Collingsworth.
[viii]Wilkinson, Daniel. “Death and Drugs in Colombia.” Ed. Claudia López Hernández. The New York Review of Books. May 24, 2011. Accessed from http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/death-and-drugs-colombia/?pagination=false on July 20, 2011
[ix]Ibid
[x]Wilson, Scott. “Interview with Carlos Castaño, Head of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.” The Washington Post. March 12, 2011. Accessed fromhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47019-2001Mar9?language=printer on July 12, 2011.
[xi]Defense Ministry, Decree 356, República de Colombia, February 11, 1994, pp. 19- 20; and Resolution 368 of the Superintendencia de Vigilancia y Seguridad Privada, April 27, 1995 (giving the name convivir to the security groups)
[xii]Does (1-144) and and Perezes (1-95) v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Case No. 9:08-cv-80465-KAM. Second Amended Complaint. Submitted July 5, 2011 by Attorney Terrence P. Collingsworth.
[xiii] Chomsky, Aviva. Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2008) pp. 189
[xiv]Ibid 196
[xv]Ibid 194
[xvi]Ibid 195
[xvii]Dudley, Steven. “Colombian Paramilitary Tells How He Financed His Own Murder Inc.: Bananas” The Miami Herald. March 21, 2009. Accessed fromhttp://www.latinamericanstudies.org/auc/hasbun.htm on July 10, 2011.
[xviii] Ibid
[xix]Does (1-144) and and Perezes (1-95) v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Case No. 9:08-cv-80465-KAM. Second Amended Complaint. Submitted July 5, 2011 by Attorney Terrence P. Collingsworth.
[xx]“The Price of Bananas.” CBS News. Published May 11, 2008 and updated on August 9, 2009. Accessed from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/08/60minutes/main4080920.shtml on July 18, 2011.
[xxi]“Chiquita Admits to Paying Colombia Terrorists.” The Associated Press. March 15, 2007. Accessed from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17615143/ on July 20, 2011.
[xxii]Does (1-144) and and Perezes (1-95) v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Case No. 9:08-cv-80465-KAM. Second Amended Complaint. Submitted July 5, 2011 by Attorney Terrence P. Collingsworth.
[xxiv]Ibid
[xxv]“Report of the General Secretariat of the Organization of the American States on the Diversion of Nicaraguan Arms to the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia.” January 6, 2003. Accessed from Federation of American Scientists website, http://www.fas.org, on July 10, 2011.
[xxvi]Does (1-144) and and Perezes (1-95) v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Case No. 9:08-cv-80465-KAM. Second Amended Complaint. Submitted July 5, 2011 by Attorney Terrence P. Collingsworth.
[xxviii]See SEC Release 44902, October 3, 2001. Accessed fromhttp://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/34-44902.htm on July 23, 2011.
[xxix]Does (1-144) and and Perezes (1-95) v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Case No. 9:08-cv-80465-KAM. Second Amended Complaint. Submitted July 5, 2011 by Attorney Terrence P. Collingsworth.
[xxx]Ibid
[xxxi]Ibid
[xxxii]Evans, Michael citing Professor Arturo Carrillo in “The Chiquita Papers: Banana Giant’s Paramilitary Payoffs Detailed in Trove of Declassified Legal, Financial Documents.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 340. Accessed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/index.htm on July 15, 2011.
[xxxiii]United States of America vs. Chiquita Brands International Sentencing Memo. Submitted March 13, 2007 by Jonathan M. Malis. Accessed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/20070313_sentencing_memo.pdf on July 10, 2011.
[xxxiv]“The Price of Bananas.” CBS News. Published May 11, 2008 and updated on August 9, 2009. Accessed from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/08/60minutes/main4080920.shtml on July 18, 2011.
[xxxv]Transcript of “Protection and Money: U.S. Companies, Their Employees, and Violence in Colombia.” Joint Hearing before the Subcommitee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions and the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session. June 28, 2007. Serial Number 110-74, 110-50 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 2007). Accessed fromhttp://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/36425.pdf on July 15, 2011.
[xxxvi]Leonnig, Carol D. “In Terrorism-Law Case, Chiquita Points to U.S.” The Washington Post. August 2, 2007. Accessed from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080102601.html on July 18, 2011.
[xxxvii]Does (1-144) and and Perezes (1-95) v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. Case No. 9:08-cv-80465-KAM. Second Amended Complaint. Submitted July 5, 2011 by Attorney Terrence P. Collingsworth.
[xxxviii]Transcript of “Protection and Money: U.S. Companies, Their Employees, and Violence in Colombia.” Joint Hearing before the Subcommitee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions and the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session. June 28, 2007. Serial Number 110-74, 110-50 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 2007). Accessed fromhttp://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/36425.pdf on July 15, 2011.
[xxxix]United States of America vs. Chiquita Brands International Sentencing Memo. Submitted March 13, 2007 by Jonathan M. Malis. Accessed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/20070313_sentencing_memo.pdf on July 10, 2011.
[xl]Chiquita Senior Counsel Robert Thomas, Handwritten Notes. March 6, 2000. Published April 7, 2011 by The National Security Archives. Accesssed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/20000306.pdf on July 10, 2011.
[xli]“Security Payments: Proposal for 2003” PowerPoint Presentatation. Published April 7, 2011 by The National Security Archives. Accesssed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/20030000.pdf on July 10, 2011.
[xlii]Handwritten note based in discussion with Chiquita in-house counsel. August 10, 1993. Published April 7, 2011 by The National Security Archives. Accesssed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/19930810.pdf on July 10, 2011.
[xliii]Chiquita and Banadex Internal Medellín-based Memos. 1992-1995. Published April 7, 2011 by The National Security Archives. Accesssed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/1143618-002---1143618-DOJ-NSD---Section1.PDF on July 20, 2011.
[xliv] Chiquita memo drafts concerning “Reportable Payments in Colombia and Manager’s Expense Payments.” January 4 and 5, 1994. Published April 7, 2011 by The National Security Archives. Accesssed from http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/19940104.pdf andhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/19940105.pdf
[xlv]Ibid
[xlvi]Evans, Michael. “The Chiquita Papers: Banana Giant’s Paramilitary Payoffs Detailed in Trove of Declassified Legal, Financial Documents.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 340. Accessed from http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/index.htm on July 15, 2011.
[xlvii]Evans, Michael. “ Colombian Gen. Rito Alejo del Río: New Evidence of Paramilitary Ties Declassified.” Published by the National Secutity Archive on January 6, 2011. Accessed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/colombia/19980304.pdf on July 20, 2011.
[xlviii]Evans, Michael. “ Colombian Gen. Rito Alejo del Río: New Evidence of Paramilitary Ties Declassified.” Published by the National Secutity Archive on January 6, 2011. Accessed fromhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/19990706.pdf on July 20, 2011.
[xlix]Transcript of “Protection and Money: U.S. Companies, Their Employees, and Violence in Colombia.” Joint Hearing before the Subcommitee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions and the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session. June 28, 2007. Serial Number 110-74, 110-50 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 2007). Accessed fromhttp://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/36425.pdf on July 15, 2011.
[l]“Demócrata Delahunt: Caso Chiquita Brands en Colombia es punta del iceberg.” January 15, 2008. Accessed from http://www.aporrea.org/tiburon/n107566.html on July 26, 2011.
[li]Marx, Gary. “Colombian Official Seeks U.S. Papers on Chiquita.” The Chicago Tribune. March 22, 2007. Accessed from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-03-22/news/0703220149_1_chiquita-executives-fernando-aguirre-united-self-defense-forces on July 20, 2011.
[lii]Muse, Toby. “Colombian Prosecutor Probing U.S. Firms.” The Associated Press. April 30, 2007. Accessed from  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043000133.html?hpid=moreheadlines on July 28, 2011.
[liii] Cawley, Marguerite. “Prosecutors Investigate Paramilitary Bribe Claims in Prosecutor General Election.” Colombia Reports. March 14, 2011. Accessed from  http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14888-colombia-to-investigate-paramilitary-bribe-claims-in-prosecutor-general-election.html on August 2, 2011.
[liv]“The Price of Bananas.” CBS News. Published May 11, 2008 and updated on August 9, 2009. Accessed from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/08/60minutes/main4080920.shtml on July 18, 2011.
[lv]Chiquita: Between Life and Law.” Al Jazeera. Aired June 10, 2009. Accessed fromhttp://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2009/06/200968112416767798.html on July 20, 2011
[lvi]Declaration of José Gregorio Mangones Lugo from Juana Pérez vs. Dole Food Company, Section 24C, on October 24, 2009. Translation by Frank Barceloo.
[lvii]July 2001 interview between Council on Hemispheric Affairs Research Associate William Moore and Terry Collingsworth
[lviii] Chiquita Handwritten Notes. May 7, 1997. Published April 7, 2011 by The National Security Archives. Accesssed from http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB340/19970507.pdf on July 10, 2011.

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