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Uploaded by on Jan 12, 2008

Investigative Journalist Greg Palast files this report from the rainforests of Ecuador, where an indigenous tribe is suing Chevron for $12 billion for contaminating the Amazon. We also play part of Palast's interview with Ecuador's President Rafael Correa.

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  • They are a criminals any way, so pay the price, make money with the life of people is totally rong .

  • totally agree with you, I just want to add:

    5) Indigenous people in Ecuador never requested money, the compensation was established by court designated experts and no judgement has been made so far. It is speculation only.

    6) 30000 people in 80 communities are affected not only the cofans.

    7) The trial has generated more than 200,000 pages of evidence and 54,000 chemical samples from which the vast majory demonstrate the presence of life-threatening toxins in the chevron operating area.

  • From 1964 until 1992, CHEVRON, the U.S. corporation dumped in excess of 18.5 billion gallons of acutely toxic "produced water" into more than 650 open and unlined pits, as well as directly into the swamps, streams and rivers that make up the Amazon rainforest of north-eastern Ecuador. Chevron should be charge on GENOCIDE!

  • palast didn't do a good research:

    1) OXY was legally ousted from Ecuador by former president Alfredo Palacio, not by Correa.

    2) Correa never addressed on Texaco trial when in campaign, as Palast suggests.

    3) Palast interviews a "journalist" saying communists are behind the trial. such journalist is not known in Ecuador, neither are any proof whatsoever about these environmental lawyers being communistists.

    4) Making a judicial dispute look like a Chavez-Bush issue is Chevron's alliby!

  • Greg Palast is such a great investigative reporter! I love his work. Thanks for posting this.

  • hahaha a group of irrationals from US trying to cover their dirty business

    FYI this is Ecuador no Colombia

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