World Bank Profited From Terrorizing Honduran Peasants, Lawsuit Alleges

A group of Honduran famers and their families have sued the World Bank, alleging it supported a violent palm-oil company that assassinated peasants opposing the business. The bank’s lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, was “knowingly profiting from the financing of murder” by loaning money to the Dinant Corporation that ruthlessly sought control of agricultural land in northern Honduras, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a Washington, D.C., federal court. The Interna...