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HRD Attack

Sindicato de Trabajadores Bananeros de Escuintla (SITRABE)

Incident date
1 Jan 2025
Date accuracy
Year Correct
Not applicable
Sindicato de Trabajadores Bananeros de Escuintla (SITRABE)
Union
Intimidation & threats
Target: Group, Organisation or Institution
Location of Incident: Guatemala
Frutera del Pacífico Guatemala Agriculture & livestock
Agroamérica Guatemala Agriculture & livestock, Palm trees & oil Company Response

Sources

Since June 2025, members of the Sindicato de Trabajadores Bananeros de Escuintla (SITRABE), a banana workers' union at the Frutera del Pacífico plantations, part of the Agroamérica group, have allegedly faced persistent harassment including unjustified dismissals, arbitrary transfers, intimidation, surveillance, increased work targets as punishment, and offers of money or promotions aimed at dismantling the union.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Agromérica to respond; it did not.