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Adios to Chiquita
Bananas in Panama
Members of cooperatives
and workers celebrated
withdrawal of the Banana
Transnational company
Chiquita Brand from
Panama, which has
controlled fruit
business in the country
for the last 80 years.
The event was celebrated
with a ceremony at Baru
locality, Chiriqui
western province that
was attended by
ministers of
Agricultural Development
Guillermo Salaza and
Labor Edwin Salamin,
according to reports
here on Saturday.
The Multiple Services
Cooperative of Armuelles
Port bought assets from
Chiquita on April 25,
2003 through 29 million
dollars in credit
granted by the
government.
However, it later
canceled the new
contract of fruit sale
to the company amidst
large workers protest
against the conditions
imposed by the company
that facilitated
profiteering.
The General Secretary of
the Chiriqui Land
Company Salustiano de
Gracia said that massive
social changes are
expected in the banana
area and ratified the
commitment to get the
cooperative off the
ground.
The transnational was
first operating under
the name of United Fruit
Company leaving a trail
of suffering in the
nations of the region
where it imposed
governments and
dictatorships
subordinated to the
interests of US
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