A paramilitary warlord said that U.S. multinationals who buy Colombia's bananas financed illegal right-wing militias that killed thousands of people in a more than decade-long reign of terror...warlord Salvatore Mancuso named Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte as having made regular payments to the militias...Mancuso testified that "each one paid one (U.S.) cent for each box of bananas they exported,"...Across the country, the paramilitaries...also served as union busters, and killed hundreds of labor rights activists. A spokesman for...Dole Food Co. denied the accusation...Messages seeking comment left with the other fruit companies that operate in Colombia were not immediately responded to...Chiquita...has acknowledged paying paramilitaries US$1.7 million...Mancuso...also accused Colombians beverage giants Postobon and Bavaria [part of SABMiller] of paying "taxes" to the paramilitaries...[Bavaria] denied the allegations...Mancuso also said that the coal companies that operated in the province of Cesar...paid "taxes"...