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by vidarh 3693 days ago
Yes...

United Fruit Company being a particularly nasty one to get on the wrong side of.

Its successor Chiquita as recently as 2007 pleaded guilty in US courts to aiding and abetting a Columbian terrorist organization, and got away with just paying $25m restitution, and the US government refused to allow extradition of any of the involved parties to stand trial in Columbia.