US Banana Giant Chiquita Fires Thousands of Striking Workers in Panama
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US Banana Giant Chiquita Fires Thousands of Striking Workers in Panama
The Chiquita workers' strike is part of a nationwide protest movement against pension reforms approved by Panama's right-wing governmen
May 23, 2025
The U.S.-headquartered banana giant Chiquita said Thursday that it moved to fire thousands of Panamanian workers who walked off the job last month as part of nationwide protests against the right-wing government's unpopular reforms to the nation's pension system.
Citing an unnamed source close to Chiquita, Reutersreported that the mass firings are expected to impact around 5,000 of the company's 6,500 Panamanian workers. José Raúl Mulino, Panama's right-wing president, defended the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit, accusing striking workers of unlawful "intransigence."
The company estimates that the strike, which began in late April, has cost it at least $75 million.
The pension reforms, known as Law 462, sparked outrage across Panama, with unions and other groups warning the changes would result in cuts to retirement benefits, particularly in the future for younger workers. The law transitions the country's pension system to an individual account structure that opponents say will be far less reliable than its predecessor.
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In 1952, as part of its agrarian reforms, the Árbenz government passed a radical and wide-ranging land reform law. In "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change," Stephen Kinzer writes that the law allowed the government to seize large swathes of uncultivated land and compensate the owners according to the declared taxable value of the land. This worried the massive United Fruit Company (UFCO), which had 85% of their land lying fallow, and had already achieved an undesirable reputation in Guatemala. In a clear example of "Yankee Imperialism," UFCO had capitalized massively in Guatemala during the previous half-century. The company's value had jumped from $20 million in 1890 to $150 million in 1920, and by 1950 it was averaging roughly twice the annual revenue of the entire Guatemalan government (per the "CIA in Guatemala"
. Guatemala alone made up a quarter of UFCO's profits, but the peasantry saw none of the prosperity.
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