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Newly Declassified Documents Detail Chiquita’s Use Of Armed Paramilitaries In Colombia

For years, Chiquita Brands International’s Colombia-based offices paid money to armed groups to guarantee that their personnel and facilities would not be harmed during the country’s civil war, according to a new report by Verdad Abierta and the National Security Archive.
The armed groups, according to the report, include paramilitaries, the Colombian Army and leftist guerillas.