When I was sent to Ecuador as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1968, Texaco had only just gone into Ecuador, and a promise to the Ecuadorian people were at that time from Texaco and their politicians and the World Bank oil pull this country is poverty. And people believe it. I believed at that time. The opposite has happened. Oil, the country has much more impoverished, while Texaco has made from these activities. There are also large areas of destruction of the Amazon rainforest. SoThe action announced today that a New York lawyer and some Ecuadorian lawyers-Steve Donziger here in New York for $ 6000000000, the largest process of environmental history of the world, on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian people against Texaco, which resulted The is now part of Chevron, for dumping garbage on 18000000000 gallons of toxic rainforest of Ecuador. This is thirty times more than the Exxon Valdez. It has killed dozens of people continue to dieCancer and other diseases related to pollution in this region of the Amazon. So all this oil come from this area, and is the poorest region of one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere. And the irony of this is so incredible. But what I think one of the really important things than this, is Amy, the company has taken this on, not pro bono, but they expect the case if you expect to do what they do to win too much money in IT, an philosophical decision. E 'is not ...
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