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The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... help democratize them. But unfortunately reality trumps this free trade rhetoric. Last year Chiquita Brands International Inc. was forced to pay the U.S. Justice Department a $25 million settlement for giving over $1 million to the right-wing terrorist organization United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). And even more disturbing, as the Washington Post in an Aug. 2, 2007 article pointed...
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Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... based upon clients he has represented while in private practice, most notably his defense of Chiquita Brands in a criminal case brought by the DOJ arising out of Chiquita's payments and other support to Colombian death squads. Attempts to criticize a lawyer for representing unsavory or even evil clients are inherently illegitimate and wrong -- period. Anybody who believes in core liberties...
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Dialogic (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Colombia and Ecuador: U.S. Politics and Chiquita - Chevron Lawsuit Worldview (WBEZ: Chicago Public Radio) Host: Jerome McDonnell President-Elect Barack Obama looks ready to nominate Eric Holder for Attorney General. During his years in private practice, Holder defended Chiquita Brands in a case where it admitted it funneled weapons and money to a Colombian paramilitary group deemed a terrorist...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... retaliatory taxes on European goods equal to the damage incurred by American companies such as Chiquita Brands International Inc.Although Brussels has made various changes to its rules over the years, the WTO has consistently found the 27-nation bloc to be in breach of its free trade obligations.
