The Chiquita multinazionale orchestrated accusata di aver il colpo di stato in Honduras. Ma questa smentisce
"E 'semplicemente ridicolo." E queste parole che Chiquita, a volta United Fruit and United Brands, the leader nel mercato delle multinazionale banane, l'AccUsa smonta da alcuni critici e rivoltale Osservatorio international see it between the principals of the coup of June 28 in Honduras. 
Luciana Luciani, a spokesman for Chiquita Italy, contacted by PeaceReporter, had no hesitation: "While waiting for the official press release do not hesitate to repeat the words already on the subject expressed by the supreme head of my company: a theory is ridiculous, just ridiculous ". Yet, it is very involving international public opinion and leading to a massive boycott campaign: "Honduras. Against the coup leaders and members would not buy Chiquita." Among the first to support the alliance between the multinational from the past rather complex, but in recent years, said he married the philosophy of transparency and rights very expensive in order to avoid retaliation lawsuits and claims, Nikolas Kozloff is the author of "Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left . On Counter Punch, newsletter Polica widespread in the United States, published an intervention, then taken up by other websites and translated into several languages, in which he rattles off the whole argument, tracing the historical deeds and their heroic brand of fruit more famous in the world. "De Arbenz in Zelaya: Chiquita (United Fruit) in Americalatina.
"When the Honduran military had toppled the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya - Kozloff explains - in corporate boardrooms of the Chiquita Banana may have breathed a sigh of relief. Earlier this year, the fruit company based in Cincinnati, USA, joined Dole in criticizing the government in Tegucigalpa that had increased the minimum wage by 60 percent. Chiquita complained that the new rules struck the benefits of the company. He was worried because it would have lost millions of dollars with the labor reforms of Zelaya in Honduras since the company produced about eight million cases of pineapple and 22 million cases per year of plane. "" And so - it continues writer - when he appeared the decree of the minimum wage, Chiquita sought help from the Honduran Council of private COHEP (who wrote a coup in the government's key man, Benjamin Bográn, head of the ministry of Industry and Trade Ed.). Even COHEP, in fact, was dissatisfied with the measures imposed by Mel on a minimum wage. Amílcar Bulnes, president of the group, explained that if the government went ahead with the increase in the minimum wage, employers would have been forced to lay off workers, thereby increasing unemployment in the country. As the leading business organization in Honduras, COHEP sixty business groups and chambers of commerce representing all sectors of the Honduran economy.
A coup happened, COHEP did not hesitate to ask the international community not to impose economic sanctions against the military regime, because that would worsen social problems of the country. Indeed, soon to rise defender of the poor Hondurans, recalling how they had already suffered too much from earthquakes, floods and the global financial crisis. Why so relentlessly? Prior to punish the military regime, according Cohpe, the UN and Osa had to send teams of observers to see first-hand how such sanctions would affect about 70 percent of citizens living below the poverty line. "All this - Kozloff explains - while Bulnes wholeheartedly supports Roberto Micheletti, stating that in Honduras there were no conditions for the return of Zelaya." After having outlined what he calls "the long and sordid political history of Chiquita in Central America", which began in the early twentieth century, made, according to this reconstruction, sinister conspiracies and plots with the most illiberal and conservative parties in countries like Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, before reaching the climax of nasty business in Colombia, the article then says "in light of Chiquita's very clear these stories is not surprising that the company has tried to ally with COHEP in the case of the coup centromaricano still underway in the country. "
http://it.peacereporter.net/articolo/17558/Honduras% 2C + the + fox + of + bananas
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