Chiquita Banana’s Hard Choices

11/28/2007 Mises Wire Stephan Kinsella

Hard Choices, from Corporate Counsel, Dec. 2007 (alternate link). Discusses the persecution of Chiquita by the feds and the US legal system for paying off terrorists to protect their employees. The evil of the state on full display — the state doesn’t protect them, and refuses to let them protect themselves (and of course, to the lawyerly mind, both sides “have a point”. Ugh.). See also Colombian families’ suit says Chiquita liable for torture, murder; Chiquita Banana Company Admits Paying Colombian Terror Groups Over $1 Million to Protect Farms.

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