Less than a week after Judge Victoria Chaney dismissed the toxic tortcases against Dole, the company was sued in the same court by survivors of paramilitary attacks in Colombia. The plaintiffs were 73 heirs of individuals who were allegedly murdered by members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Most of the victims were employed by Dole or its suppliers.
According to the complaint, Dole paid AUC (which the U.S. Department of State has designated a terrorist organization) for more than a decade. The “security services” the group provided allegedly included driving small farmers and leftist guerrillas out of the land on which Dole planted bananas; protecting the property from vandals; and preventing union organizing by intimidating, and sometimes murdering, labor leaders.
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