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Article

27 May 2007

Author:
T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times

Nicaragua: Plantation workers look for justice in the North

Many [workers] had spent their lives toiling on banana plantations that U.S. companies operated in this region some 30 years ago...As the decades passed, the workers came to believe that the pesticide, called DBCP, had cost them their health...thousands joined lawsuits in the U.S. and Nicaragua alleging that the pesticide made them sterile...For the first time, a U.S. jury will have the chance to weigh the accusation that Dole Food Co. knowingly used a pesticide manufactured by Dow Chemical Co. that sterilized workers in Latin America three decades ago...Dole...and Dow...deny the allegations...In addition...Del Monte Fresh Produce Inc., Chiquita Brands Inc. and Shell Oil Co. are named as defendants in those cases. [also refers to Amvac Chemical Corp.]