[Marxism] Colombian Canary Sings: Drummond Coal goes better with Colombian Coke

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Updated: Blood Money: Chiquita, Drummond coal and Coke death squads
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/03/chiquita-another-case-of-no- 
prosecution.html
Chiquita admits its company Banadex paid more than a million dollars  
to hire death squads in Colombia to kill thousands of human rights  
activists, union organizers and farmers.

Chiquita is the successor to the notorious human rights violator  
United Fruit Company. It comes as no surprise that the Zapata  
Corporation, an oil company created by H.W. Bush, acquired the  
controlling interest of United Fruit in 1969.

Now, AP reports that Colombia wants eight Chiquita officials  
extradited. Further, Drummond Coal, with Israel its primary customer,  
is now under investigation and linked to those death squads. Drummond  
has denied it. With kickbacks to the Bush administration and  
Colombia's president, Chiquita and other corporations have escaped  
responsibility until now.

Coal shipments carried cocaine:

“The paramilitary has secret employees at Drummond’s La Loma coal  
mines,” continues Garcia in his private prison cubicle.“I can also  
tell you that there were two times that the paramilitary affixed  
shipments of cocaine to the bottom of the boats used by Drummond to  
send its coal to Europe, Israel, and the US,” offers Garcia.

Read more: http://www.latinamericanpost.com/index.php? 
mod=seccion&secc=1&conn=4584

But this isn't the first time Chiquita has avoided prosecution. As  
with the current case, in the year 2000 Chiquita placed the blame on  
a "recently acquired" company, entered into an agreement with the US  
government and avoided prosecution:

Justice Dept website: "For instance, a few years ago Chiquita Brand  
International disclosed to the government that a recently acquired  
subsidiary, John Morrell & Co. had been illegally dumping  
slaughterhouse waste into the Big Sioux River and falsifying its  
paperwork. In recognition of its disclosure and cooperation, Chiquita  
Brand was not prosecuted although the subsidiary and several of its  
officials were subsequently charged and convicted of Clean Water Act  
felonies."
Read more:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/speech/ethics.htm

Narco News:

Chiquita paid a fine and wiped its hands of death squads:

..."None of the survivors of the AUC's crimes will ever see a penny  
of that money.
And even though top executives personally approved the payments to  
the AUC, none of them are facing a single day in jail.

A bitter irony for Arab-Americans locked away in federal prison in  
the name of the war on terror, whose crimes pale in comparison to  
Chiquita's: People like Dr.Rafil Dhafir an Iraqi-American who is  
serving 22 years in prison -- not for giving money to terrorists, but  
for sending food, medicine, and blankets to needy Iraqis in violation  
of U.S. sanctions. "

--Sean Donahue
http://www.narconews.com/

Now Colombia is investigating whether Chiquita was involved in  
weapons shipments to death squads. In today's response to Los Angeles  
Times, Chiquita is now denying allegations it was involved in the  
shipment of weapons to paramilitary.

"Coca-Cola: Drink of the Death Squads"

(video)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HFZ3cH1UAI

Coca-Cola accused of hiring death squads to kill union members in  
Colombia:

http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm


"When Corporations and Government Become One"

The Bush family and the architects of Nazism:
http://www.the-signal.com/? 
module=displaystory&story_id=47268&format=html

Colombian senators in prison; computer of paramilitary revealed the  
links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/colombia/story/0,,2043614,00.html










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