NEWSBYTIFFANY LUCIENNE SCALIA

This is how a former laborer for Dole Food Company described the campaign to get the company to take care of poisoned banana workers:

“They’re just waiting for all of us to die off.  Because they know once that happens, they won’t have to fight anymore and they will have gotten away with it.  We refuse to let that happen.”

As the confident but somehow fragile-seeming man spoke in the warm accent characteristic of Nicaraguan Spanish, a spark of passionate anger coursed through me... How dare a company treat its former employees so horribly!