The usual suspects

In what could be seen as a sequel to the famous Monsanto Papers (a series of documents revealing the methods employed by that transnational corporation to discredit those who were denouncing the harmful effects of its products and the pressure exerted by the company on governments, politicians, and scientists), the British newspaper The Guardian has just uncovered similar tactics used by Bayer, Monsanto’s current owner, to make Mexico abandon its decision to ban glyphosate.

“Fyffes’s nobodies”

In abject poverty. Completely forsaken. This is how workers of the multinational corporation Fyffes/Sumitomo live in Honduras. Workers who have given the company years of their lives, yet are denied a dignified life.

The Pineapple Republic

When those elected by the people to lead and manage government institutions renounce their most basic duties and responsibilities, such as protecting human life, and do so to safeguard and promote the economic interests of a sycophantic1 elite and of multinational corporations, they rightfully earn the epithet “serial social killers.”

Chiquita: Verde e amarela

In the distinctly agro-industrial region of northern Costa Rica, devoted primarily to pineapple and banana crops, more than 200 Chiquita Brands workers were illegally dismissed so that the transnational corporation could evict them and demolish their houses. We spoke about this with Didier Leitón Valverde, general secretary of the Union of Agricultural Plantation Workers (SITRAP).