Title: Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
Headings: 
Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
Map of the general supply chain of Chiquita Banana
Overview of Supply Chain
Chiquita Displaces Locations
The Good and Bad of Chiquita
Governance
Chiquita and the WTO
Labor
Labor Conditions and "Race to Bottom"
Attempts at Improvement
Environment
More Environmental Impacts
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity (cont.)
Discourse, Images, Brand Identity (cont.)

Content: Despite the payments, groups like Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) committed numerous atrocities against civilians and Chiquita banana workers alike. Although Chiquita ceased payments to FARC and ELN when they were added to the US’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, it continued payments to a rogue group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) for two years after it was added to the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, which was considered a federal crime in the US. When the Department of Justice pressed charges, Chiquita pled guilty and was given only a $25 million fine. No individual executives at Chiquita were charged with any crimes. Chiquita Raid on Tacamiche, Honduras
Dispute between Chiquita and Honduran villagers on the Tacamiche plantation in Honduras began in July of 1994 when Chiquita tried to relocate villagers off land to sell it to ranchers and developers. Chiquita, who technically owned the land, deemed the soil infertile and wanted to sell it, but peasants who had worked and lived there for generations refused to leave. Villagers inquired about trying to buy land, but Chiquita disputed whether this happened. In February 1996, army troops, police, and Chiquita work crews raided the settlement, evicted 123 families, destroyed crops, and proceeded to burn down homes and even three churches as well. Human Rights Groups and even the Roman Catholic Church denounced the raid as a blatant violation of human rights, but Chiquita officials claimed the action was legal and justified. Oswaldo Martinez, the news director of a Honduran radio station, said the raid was “a way of saying that they are still a state within a state, and the Honduras, unfortunately, is still a banana republic.”