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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Hi All,</span>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">I wondering if anyone knows (fairly precisely) when United Fruit/Chiquita contracted with </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">banana
plantations in Ecuador, and if there is any evidence of their </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">presence in the country between 1965 and 1985 -- particularly
whether</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> they were contracting with domestic producers during this period, and if</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> there
is written evidence of this presence (probably in the form of </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">contracts). And if no one has evidence....where might one look?</span></div>
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<div>I'm pretty sure the answer is Yes....Chiquita was there and contracting....but need something more concrete than that.</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance.</div>
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<div>Steve Striffler<br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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