Terrorist corporate violence -- literally

Chiquita, which sells bananas and used to be called United Fruit Company (in the olden days when it helped overthrow Guatemala's democracy), just admitted to conspiring with Colombian terrorists (from the NYT wire):

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Banana company Chiquita Brands International admitted in federal court Monday that for years it paid Colombian terrorists to protect its most profitable banana-growing operation.

Read the full story. (The story equates leftist rebels with right-wing paramilitary groups, though it suggests the bulk of the payments went to the former.)