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Article

1 Oct 2003

Author:
Matt Pacenza, Village Voice [USA]

Strange Fruit - Guatemalan peasants murdered on [former] Del Monte banana plantation

Lawyers with the International Labor Rights Fund are...helping exiled union leaders sue the company [Fresj Del Monte Produce] in a Florida court under the 214-year-old Alien Tort Claims Act...The lawsuit alleges that the $2 billion company conspired to kidnap, torture, and unlawfully detain the SITRABI leaders during the 1999 union hall takeover.