Florida jury orders Chiquita Brands to pay $38.3m to families of victims killed by a paramilitary group it funded in Colombia.

A Florida jury ruled that Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3m to the families of eight people killed by a right-wing paramilitary group in Colombia, which the banana producer had funded for years during that country's violent civil war. This marks the first time the company has been found liable in any of multiple similar lawsuits pending elsewhere in U.S. courts.

June 11, 2024
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