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  • In this case, I can believe that Chiquita didn't set out to finance the AUC, but was unfortunate in that their banana plantations fell into AUC-controlled territory, and therefore were extorted for protection money.

    It's like if I owned an Italian restaurant, the mafia comes in and extorts me for protection money, then the feds come and arrest me for financing the mafia. What was I supposed to do?

    edit: I didn't know about Chiquita. Thanks for the replies and info!

  • Since she dropped the money off with the police, the person who owns the money can come and claim it.

    If nobody claims it within a certain period of time, then the money is officially hers to keep.

    If someone does come and claim it, then they will probably get in a lot of legal trouble.

    i.e. The money's about as good as the former juror's. She just needs to wait.

  • An ammunition in possession of an army is that army's bomb, regardless of who made it.

    There could an Israeli-made bomb in the possession of Hamas, for example, but one wouldn't call it an Israeli bomb except under very specific context.

  • Not yet. More like the continued flow of refugees from the climate-related collapse of agriculture in Central America, and the resulting criminal gang takeover of the countryside there.

    https://www.wfpusa.org/countries/dry-corridor/

    https://reliefweb.int/report/guatemala/climate-extremes-food-insecurity-and-migration-central-america-complicated-nexus

    The US is partly responsible for advancing Central American gang culture, by inducting disorganized immigrant gangs into organized violent gang culture by putting them alongside US domestic gangs in prison, then deporting them.

    The other major part is the flow of money from Mexican drug cartels to ensure drug transportation corridors, which of course, is largely funded by sheer size of the US drug market.

    https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/complexities-gang-membership-central-america

    Day Zero when Mexico City runs out of water is expected near the end of June, unless they get some rain.

  • The Guardian has an international writing staff.

    The author of this article, if you click on her name, for example:

    Rachel Leingang is a democracy reporter focused on misinformation for Guardian US. She is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Here's her LinkedIn, saying she has 10 years of reporting experience after going to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications in Arizona for 4 years. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-leingang-6a044b2a