Preti Flaherty represents plaintiffs who have sued over missionaries'
deaths at the hands of militants.
A Portland law firm is one of three lead counsels involved in a federal
lawsuit filed by relatives of U.S. missionaries killed in Colombia.
The suit claims that Chiquita Brands International Inc. contributed to their
deaths by financing the leftist rebel group known as FARC.
Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios is representing plaintiffs in the
lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Miami. It seeks unspecified
damages for families of five missionaries from the Sanford, Fla.-based New
Tribes Mission. They were kidnapped in the 1990s, held hostage for lengthy
periods and killed by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or
FARC, the suit says.
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