"A Colombian court wants to investigate banana companies in Uraba for financing paramilitary groups," 14 May 2020

[T]he Superior Court of Antioquia requested the Prosecutor's Office investigate…Uniban, Banacol, and Bananeras de Uraba SA, for their alleged criminal association and voluntary financing of paramilitary groups, which was declared a crime against humanity by the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation.

…They also requested the Prosecutor's Office investigate the businessmen Rosalba Zapata and Felipe Echeverri Zapata for creating an alleged plot of land dispossession…The court ordered the restitution of 11 properties to peasant families.

…According to the peasants, the paramilitaries arrived armed "seeking to intimidate the farmers so that they would pay four million pesos per each hectare of their land, to supposedly achieve land ownership," the court says. The claimants indicated that they were forced to pay the money in instalments through Banacol, the company with which they marketed the bananas they grew on the plots.