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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe “there’s a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can” of the country’s java.
The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation says it has consulted with U.S. lawyers and will sue “Mother Goose & Grimm” cartoonist Mike Peters “for damage and harm, detriment to intellectual property and defamation.”
The suit will be filed Friday and “would not seek any less than $20 million,” according the federation’s website. It will also demand a retraction from any newspaper that published the Jan. 2 cartoon.
Peters said Wednesday that he loves Colombia, drinks its coffee daily and did not intend any offense.
