STEVE INSKEEP, host: Chiquita Banana is here to say that it paid millions to make a problem go away.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Chiquita Brands International will plead guilty to doing business with gunmen in Colombia. That country has suffered from a long-running civil war. And American prosecutors say Chiquita had a right-wing paramilitary group on its payroll. The prosecutor said the banana company made $1.7 million in protection payments to the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: That meant Chiquita was supporting a group linked to some of Colombia's worst massacres in recent years. Now the company will pay $25 million to settle the charges.
Chiquita Brands International will plead guilty to doing business with gunmen in Colombia. Prosecutors said the banana company made $1.7 million in "protection payments" to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a right-wing paramilitary group linked to some of Colombia's worst massacres. The company will pay $25 million to settle the charges.