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Chiquita's reaction to the campaign of Arbenz

"It's just ridiculous." It is with these words that Chiquita, formerly United Fruit and United Brands, a multinational market for bananas, answered the charges that have led many international observers who see the constituents of the coup of June 28 in Honduras.

Luciana Luciani, Chiquita Italia spokesman, when contacted by PeaceReporter, answered with a harsh tone Global Campaign "Boycott Chiquita." Without hesitation he says, "While I hope the statement official did not hesitate to repeat the words already given on the subject by the supreme head of my company is a ridiculous argument, simply ridiculous. "

Hopefully so. Unfortunately, it is tragic, it is anything else, but not too ridiculous. The "supreme leader" can not refute the chronicle, or criminal record and recent history of the multinational banana in Honduras and in other South American countries.

Latin American Coordination of Banana Unions (COLSIBA) has denounced the hellish working conditions prevailing in Chiquita facilities: 12-hour workday, women, men and children workers exposed to very harmful effects of DBCP. This is a "parasite" banned carcinogen that causes sterility and deformed fetuses. This is the Honduras that the coup leaders and agricultural exporters want to keep all costs.

Chiquita radically opposed to raising the minimum wage decreed by the deposed President Zelaya and was the spearhead of open insubordination and expresses the business association Honduras (Coehp), which represents the most influential.

The "supreme leader" can not deny nor a condemnation of the U.S. justice system on charges that Chiquita made for funding the notorious Colombian paramilitaries, with an expenditure of $ 1.7 million.

A judge imposed a fine of $ 25 million and recognized the fair grounds of the families of scores of peasants killed by paramilitaries responsible for "maintaining order" in the banana estates. The judge ruled that they were terrorists.

was the late nineties. No 1920, Sam "The banana man "Zemurray could say with impunity" In Honduras a mule costs more than a deputy. "

Times are changing, the people of Honduras have the right to be governed by their choice at the polls.

Therefore, international civil society action against the military-business coup and strike with the force of reason and nonviolence to all political and economic supporters of the coup.

CIBCH