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...Texaco discovered oil in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon. A treasure chest of biological diversity, this area is also home to several indigenous groups, including the Huaorani, the Secoya, the Shuar and the Quichua. Under Ecuadorian law, these groups have no rights to subsurface minerals on their land, so the oil was sold by the government without their consent. When the oil company tried to enter the area, its trucks were blocked by irate local villagers. Only with the help of the military was Texaco able to begin drilling...
...Ecuador in 1972. From 1972 to 1989, 1.4 billion barrels of oil passed through the pipeline. Over those 17 years, 27 spills occurred, releasing an estimated 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into one of the world's biodiversity hot spots and the traditional home of thousands of Ecuadorian natives. Judith Kimerling, a Yale-educated attorney and the author of Amazon Crude, estimates that, even today, 4.3 million gallons of untreated toxic wastes are being released into the watershed every...
None of it will happen, though, without strong action from the Ecuadorian government and pressure from scientists and conservationists in the North and South. As Sonoma State University paleontologist Matthew James puts it, "If there's one place in the world where we should draw a line in the sand, it's the Galapagos...
...amount of gold there is incredible,'' former Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose de la Puente Rabdill told reporters last week. But no geological studies of the site have been done. Instead, the skirmishing may have had more to do with domestic politics, as both Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Ecuadorian President Sixto Duran Ballen used the long-standing border quarrel to bolster their own popularity...
...most recent violence began on Jan. 9, when an Ecuadorian military patrol captured four Peruvian soldiers along the border, in territory that is claimed by Ecuador. Two days later, Ecuadorian soldiers discovered a contingent of a dozen or so Peruvians in the same area. ``As soon as we ordered them to identify themselves, they opened fire. Since that day Peruvians have attacked nine Ecuadorian towns in the area,'' says Duran Ballen. Ecuador responded by mobilizing some 60,000 troops and accusing the Peruvians of attacking with helicopters that the U.S. had donated for drug-suppression programs...