The execution of banana plantation worker “David” by right-wing Colombian paramilitary members in 1997 was as swift as it was brutal. Minutes after his bus was stopped at a checkpoint in ...

Hundreds of millions of dollars in banana exports from Colombia are at risk due to a fungal disease best known as Tropical Race 4 (TR4). First detected in Asia in the 1990s, the Fusarium fungus ...

Because the number of banana eaters in the U ... was ascribed to Reds. So used is Colombia to labor agitation, that recently President Miguel Abadia Mendez was given the right to declare martial ...

The world's fifth-largest banana producer wants to "ramp up" trade with the EU, Colombia's foreign minister told Euractiv in an interview.

BOGOTA, March 14 (Reuters) - Colombia's banana exports fell 2.7% to 108 million 20-kilogram boxes last year, the head of banana growers' association told Reuters on Tuesday, citing inclement ...

NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to reporter Jorge Valencia about banana brand Chiquita being found liable in US courts for deaths during the Colombian Civil War ...

Banana giant Chiquita Brands International must pay more than $38 million in damages to victims of a Colombian paramilitary group the company was found liable for financing in the late 1990s and ...

In the face of the allegations, Chiquita says it paid the AUC under duress to protect its banana-growing operations in areas caught up in Colombia’s civil war. But the plaintiffs say the jury is ...

“The situation in Colombia was tragic for so many,” Chiquita, whose banana operations are based in Florida, said in a statement after the verdict. “However, that does not change our belief ...

In 1998, when The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the American banana company Chiquita Brands had bribed Colombian officials to obtain a license for the use of a port loading facility in Turbo ...