This is hardly new. For all it self-righteous pomposity, US corporations and Govt. have a history of this sort of thing - from UFC, and now the oil cos. in the Americas, to Union Carbide in India [Bhopal].
The CIA called it "Operation PBSuccess." [1] And they didn't call it that because it failed! The CIA produced some spectacular propaganda footage including this gem called "Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas" [2]
United Fruit also massacred a bunch of striking workers in 1928 in Colombia. Well, they paid the Colombian Army to do the leg work. This episode was named the Banana Massacre. [3]
I do believe their CEO Eli Black gave notice by means of walking out of the 44th floor window of his office in the Pan Am building in New York. [4] His replacement was quoted as saying "it's important that I don't get too knowledgable about the past." Seems like a smart dude.
So that's Chiquita Bananas for ya. Just wait till you learn what Dole got up to in South America.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27état
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtAKHnqkf4