Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

“The Politics of Bananas”

Alvaro Vargos Llosa writes on the $25 million fine paid by Chiquita for funding the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia: Ultimately, this is a story about double standards—those applied by Colombia’s institutions, which encouraged the AUC for many years by sanctifying the very rules of the game they now decry, and those applied by U.S. […]

Alvaro Vargos Llosa writes on the $25 million fine paid by Chiquita for funding the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia:

Ultimately, this is a story about double standards—those applied by Colombia’s institutions, which encouraged the AUC for many years by sanctifying the very rules of the game they now decry, and those applied by U.S. authorities, who did not hold Colombia to the same legal standards to which they held their own country.

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