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Anonymous ID: 5e6d06 Jan. 1, 2018, 1:47 p.m. No.224447   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4539

Chiquita Brands International grows, procures, markets, and sells bananas and other fresh fruits under the Chiquita name and third parties. Chiquita's products are sold in nearly 70 countries. In 2015, a joint venture formed by agribusiness Grupo Cutrale and J. Safra Group acquired Chiquita which is now privately-owned with its principal offices in Rolle, Switzerland and Fort Lauderdale, North America.

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On May 3, 1998, the Cincinnati Enquirer published an expose titled “Chiquita Secrets Revealed” by Mike Gallagher and Cameron McWhirter.

 

The articles detailed Chiquita’s complicity in international drug trafficking, bribing foreign government officials, suppressing the unionization of workers and poisoning employees with hazardous pesticides….Before Chiquita Brands International, the company started in 1899 as United Fruit Company. Both a representative of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation and a law partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Allen Dulles had economic and legal ties to United Fruit. From 1946-1950, Allen Dulles served as Director of the Council on Foreign Relations. On August 23, 1951, he was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA. Exactly a month before Allen Dulles became appointed the Director of the CIA on February 26, 1953, his brother, John Foster Dulles, became the US Secretary of State. In 1952, democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz succeeded in passing the Agrarian Reform Act. Arbenz reimbursed the company at their declared tax value of the land. United Fruit lost millions of dollars. On June 27, 1954, CIA officers E. Howard Hunt and Phil Roettinger orchestrated the coup d’etat ousting Arbenz in a covert operation designated PBSUCCESS. Arbenz fled the country while United Fruit regained the land. Corporate raider Eli M. Black renamed the company United Brands in 1970. Black mismanaged the company and eventually committed suicide by jumping out of his office from the 44th floor, The SEC was investigating him at the time for bribing Honduran President Oswaldo Lopez Arellano with $2.5 million.

 

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