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...videotaping had violated laws. In any event, the scandal promises to delay the completion of a trial that has already spanned two decades and two continents. It began in the early 1990s in New York, after settlers and indigenous tribes in the Amazon oil towns of Coca, Lago Agrio and Shushufindi accused Texaco - which was bought by Chevron in 2002 - of recklessly dumping crude and wastewater into their lakes and rivers, seriously damaging the public health and livelihoods of tens of thousands of people. A court-appointed expert estimated the total damage to be a remarkable $27 billion, a figure...
Ironically, Chevron in 2003 requested that the trial be moved to Lago Agrio, believing the conservative Ecuadorian government at the time would be more sympathetic. Indeed, in 1998 the government had declared that Texaco's $40 million cleanup of the sullied Amazon area was satisfactory. But three years later, Correa was elected, and Chevron has complained ever since that his administration has interfered in the case and prodded the judges overseeing it - including Nuñez, who took over last year - toward the plaintiffs...
...earthquakes set off severe flooding and mud slides in the highlands above the town of Lago Agrio, 150 miles northeast of Quito. A wall of mud and water careered eastward along the channel of the Aguarico River, sweeping away everything in its path. Entire villages, along with bridges, roads and crowded buses, were buried in thousands of tons of mud. The deluge left as many as 110,000 people homeless...
...disaster brought the country's reeling economy to its knees. Mud slides destroyed 25 miles of Ecuador's vital oil pipeline, which begins at Lago Agrio and travels 340 miles through the Andes to the Pacific port of Balao. The rupture forced the suspension of oil exports, which in recent years have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without...
...region around the town of Lago Agrio, teams of rescue workers ferried in emergency aid by helicopter. An urgent plea for outside help yielded planeloads of food, medicine and tents, including 50 tons of supplies from the U.S. By week's end officials were expressing serious concern about longer-term environmental damage. The mud slides and oil spills, said Health Minister Jorge Bracho, may have "modified the whole region of the Ecuadorian Amazon...
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