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...judicial farce.' CHARLES JAMES, a Chevron executive, on the $27 billion lawsuit Ecuadoran plaintiffs filed against the oil giant for allegedly causing environmental damage in the Amazon. The company has released recordings that reportedly implicate government officials in a bribery scheme and suggest that the case's judge has decided he will rule against Chevron...
...ACCUSATIONS Ecuador denounced the violation of its sovereignty, but Colombian officials countered by saying the raid yielded evidence that FARC had met with Ecuadoran officials--and that the group was trying to build radioactive dirty bombs...
...figures like the bearded and glib Reyes, 59, who was one of the less mysterious FARC comandantes because of his role as media flack. His real name was Luis Edgar Devia Silva - and his satellite phone apparently gave away his location in remote southwestern Colombia, near or across the Ecuadoran border. Bogota has also begun extraditing FARC leaders to the U.S., and two of them were recently convicted and handed lengthy federal prison sentences. It's not even certain if the FARC's 77-year-old leader, Manuel Marulanda (known as Tirofijo, or Sureshot) is still alive; and morale among...
...elites have robbed everything from us, but they cannot steal our hope. We will take back our oil, our country, our future!" And like Chavez, Correa wields his tongue like a belt at the U.S. Asked about Chavez's recent "devil" diatribe at the United Nations, Correa told an Ecuadoran TV network, "Calling Bush the devil offends the devil. Bush is a tremendously dimwitted President who has done great damage to the world...
...more hard-edged fundamentalism, was still laboring under a near-pariah status dating to the public relations disaster of the Scopes trial decades earlier. This began to change with the public emergence of Billy Graham; and Moreau says that the missionary movement gained a similar "push" following the Ecuadoran deaths and the article's description of the victims "in positive light, as people who were dedicated to a cause and were not portrayed as idiots.? The article was an early keystone moment in Evangelicalism's return from the cold...