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The World – Episode 20071116 – Nicaraguan banana farmers vs. Dole fresh fruit company

For the first time, foreign banana workers have had their day in US court. And they’ve won. A group of Nicaraguan workers sued Dole Food and Dow Chemical. They claimed they became sterile after exposure to a pesticide used in the 1970s on banana plantations around the world. The World’s Julia Kumari Drapkin has the details.