Chevron against affected communities The multinational Chevron recently installed in Argentina, Ecuador fugitive from justice after losing a lawsuit millionaire environmental damage in the Amazon in that country, he sued the affected communities. Yes, you read that right dear / the reader / a, at this time Indians, settlers and the legal team that represented, are being tried as "gangsters and extortionists" in a court of New York. By Vivi Benito (from Quito). Chevron against affected communities
The multinational Chevron recently installed in Argentina, Ecuador fugitive from justice after losing a lawsuit millionaire environmental damage in the Amazon in that country, he sued the affected communities. Yes, you read that right dear / the reader / a, at this time Indians, settlers and the legal team that represented, are being tried as "gangsters and extortionists" in a court of New York. enREDando spoke with concerning the Amazon and one of their lawyers. Your skin and eyes are the color of the earth, the land fertile, moist, blue-green, where he was born. Piyaguaje Elijah takes the beating of the Amazon, the largest tropical forest in the world, multinationals are played like a game of TEG, including life and First Nations communities. Elijah speaks softly, almost whispering. Not usually walking around the city, here in Quito, with more than two million people, including transit through Furious, his words are heard less, and it is clear that there is little social and political interest in wanting to hear. Indigenous leader has his face painted, necklaces of seeds and stones, is a model for the nation redwood, one of the many people affected by oil extraction activities conducted by Chevron-Texaco between 1972 and 1992, using outdated technologies-for better profits-not suitable for environmental protection. "You can not allow a powerful equity crush us like that. We want everyone in the world in solidarity, lovers of life, against the crimes they have committed. We're not criminals, we have killed anyone, we are asking for life. We want to stay still in the world, Chevron-Texaco will have to come and remedy the damaged environment, there are the evidence, can not be blocked or deleted, "he says, as part of the press conference in Quito ( Ecuador) by the Union of Affected / as by Chevron. Bluntly and common sense is often lacking in legislatures and government houses, the indigenous leader continues: "We want Texaco come, clean debris left. Indigenous communities in the Amazon are about to disappear for his bad work oil. These ancient peoples have lived for millennia in their forest, now can not live because it has been damaged completely original habitat. " A landmark judgment In February 2011, after 19 years of litigation, the Court of Justice of Ecuador ruled against Chevron in the environmental trial carried out by the natives and settlers from the provinces of Orellana and Sucumbios, in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. The opinion was a global precedent in demanding respect for human and environmental rights, trampled by the company in Ecuador and in many countries in which it operates. U.S. oil company to pay 19 billion dollars for environmental remediation of contaminated areas by negligent operation, but so far is a fugitive from justice, appealing to all the artillery possible judicial and economic political lobby not take over responsibility. This line is the recent judgment imposed oil to affected communities, and winning the historic trial. "The amount you must pay for the oil represents a minimal amount of liquid profits it receives. According to official reports of the company, in the first quarter of 2012, made a net profit of 6.471 billion dollars and 7.2 billion dollars in the last quarter of the same year "note from Affected Union. The trial against the affected "This is a shameful day, is an infamous day, Chevron, the perpetrator, the executioner of so many people in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is now suing his victims, is telling indigenous and peasant communities with their lawyers and supporters who are a criminal organization that has been organized to extort the company. When we first heard this claim to be honest, we laughed, because we said no judge in the world will heed this, but there was a judge in the world ", explains Juan Pablo Saenz, attorney legal team member of peasant and indigenous communities. "We underestimate the level of influence that Chevron had about Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is the head judge, the judge to whom they have come every time they do this kind of thing. From the first hearing we realized that this judge was willing to go to the end, "says Saenz, sizing the power of the multinational. The hearings of the trial began on October 15, before Judge Lewis Kaplan, who apply Rico Law, U.S. Federal Law, created in the '70s to fight the mafia and organized crime. "In this case we are guilty of having defended rights, raised Glad we are guilty of abuses against these people, communities are found to have claimed for their rights. That is the real crime, that they are being judged right now in the United States, of nothing, "said the lawyer Clearly this trial-where 47 indigenous and settlers affected the Amazon, their lawyers and technical staff, is one of the mechanisms that the multinational is using to evade the sentence delos 19 billion dollars. According to Juan Pablo Saenz explains, this is a ploy to waste time and further erode those affected, but that whatever the fault is determined after this trial will have no impact on the collection of the judgment to be paid by Chevron and not affect in any other jurisdiction in the world where the execution takes place, so that you can not stop or prevent actions that are carried out today in Brazil, Argentina and Canada. "In the case that Judge Kaplan's ruling is contrary to the interests of Ecuadorians, it will appeal to the Second Circuit in New York, where we have a real access to justice in view of the numerous irregularities and defects in this process," says Saenz. Validity of racism "The judge said from the beginning that he doubted the existence of the Ecuadorian Amazon brothers not only doubted his demands and sentence. This is awful, here's a serious ideological issue. He said that it is not proven that these people have suffered some type of damage and that this issue arises only from the mind of American lawyers, we are again facing the racism and imperialism. They did not think that a group of Native American Amazon can actually organize and can organize a system of sophisticated decision making, and truth can become transnational as break a company did, "Saenz analyzes. In short tone, like whispering, Elijah Piyaguaje also speaks of the powers of the forest, the song of birds, the moon, the sun and the spiritual universe that lives in the Amazon. His words, full of life, seem to be far from the mercantilist logic that still dominate the world. ............ More information: www.texacotoxico.org
Chevron against affected communities
The multinational Chevron recently installed in Argentina, Ecuador fugitive from justice after losing a lawsuit millionaire environmental damage in the Amazon in that country, he sued the affected communities. Yes, you read that right dear / the reader / a, at this time Indians, settlers and the legal team that represented, are being tried as "gangsters and extortionists" in a court of New York. enREDando spoke with concerning the Amazon and one of their lawyers.
Your skin and eyes are the color of the earth, the land fertile, moist, blue-green, where he was born. Piyaguaje Elijah takes the beating of the Amazon, the largest tropical forest in the world, multinationals are played like a game of TEG, including life and First Nations communities.
Elijah speaks softly, almost whispering. Not usually walking around the city, here in Quito, with more than two million people, including transit through Furious, his words are heard less, and it is clear that there is little social and political interest in wanting to hear.
Indigenous leader has his face painted, necklaces of seeds and stones, is a model for the nation redwood, one of the many people affected by oil extraction activities conducted by Chevron-Texaco between 1972 and 1992, using outdated technologies-for better profits-not suitable for environmental protection.
"You can not allow a powerful equity crush us like that. We want everyone in the world in solidarity, lovers of life, against the crimes they have committed. We're not criminals, we have killed anyone, we are asking for life. We want to stay still in the world, Chevron-Texaco will have to come and remedy the damaged environment, there are the evidence, can not be blocked or deleted, "he says, as part of the press conference in Quito ( Ecuador) by the Union of Affected / as by Chevron.
Bluntly and common sense is often lacking in legislatures and government houses, the indigenous leader continues: "We want Texaco come, clean debris left. Indigenous communities in the Amazon are about to disappear for his bad work oil. These ancient peoples have lived for millennia in their forest, now can not live because it has been damaged completely original habitat. "
A landmark judgment
In February 2011, after 19 years of litigation, the Court of Justice of Ecuador ruled against Chevron in the environmental trial carried out by the natives and settlers from the provinces of Orellana and Sucumbios, in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. The opinion was a global precedent in demanding respect for human and environmental rights, trampled by the company in Ecuador and in many countries in which it operates.
U.S. oil company to pay 19 billion dollars for environmental remediation of contaminated areas by negligent operation, but so far is a fugitive from justice, appealing to all the artillery possible judicial and economic political lobby not take over responsibility. This line is the recent judgment imposed oil to affected communities, and winning the historic trial. "The amount you must pay for the oil represents a minimal amount of liquid profits it receives. According to official reports of the company, in the first quarter of 2012, made a net profit of 6.471 billion dollars and 7.2 billion dollars in the last quarter of the same year "note from Affected Union.
The trial against the affected
"This is a shameful day, is an infamous day, Chevron, the perpetrator, the executioner of so many people in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is now suing his victims, is telling indigenous and peasant communities with their lawyers and supporters who are a criminal organization that has been organized to extort the company. When we first heard this claim to be honest, we laughed, because we said no judge in the world will heed this, but there was a judge in the world ", explains Juan Pablo Saenz, attorney legal team member of peasant and indigenous communities.
"We underestimate the level of influence that Chevron had about Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is the head judge, the judge to whom they have come every time they do this kind of thing. From the first hearing we realized that this judge was willing to go to the end, "says Saenz, sizing the power of the multinational.
The hearings of the trial began on October 15, before Judge Lewis Kaplan, who apply Rico Law, U.S. Federal Law, created in the '70s to fight the mafia and organized crime. "In this case we are guilty of having defended rights, raised Glad we are guilty of abuses against these people, communities are found to have claimed for their rights. That is the real crime, that they are being judged right now in the United States, of nothing, "said the lawyer
Clearly this trial-where 47 indigenous and settlers affected the Amazon, their lawyers and technical staff, is one of the mechanisms that the multinational is using to evade the sentence delos 19 billion dollars.
According to Juan Pablo Saenz explains, this is a ploy to waste time and further erode those affected, but that whatever the fault is determined after this trial will have no impact on the collection of the judgment to be paid by Chevron and not affect in any other jurisdiction in the world where the execution takes place, so that you can not stop or prevent actions that are carried out today in Brazil, Argentina and Canada.
"In the case that Judge Kaplan's ruling is contrary to the interests of Ecuadorians, it will appeal to the Second Circuit in New York, where we have a real access to justice in view of the numerous irregularities and defects in this process," says Saenz.
Validity of racism
"The judge said from the beginning that he doubted the existence of the Ecuadorian Amazon brothers not only doubted his demands and sentence. This is awful, here's a serious ideological issue. He said that it is not proven that these people have suffered some type of damage and that this issue arises only from the mind of American lawyers, we are again facing the racism and imperialism. They did not think that a group of Native American Amazon can actually organize and can organize a system of sophisticated decision making, and truth can become transnational as break a company did, "Saenz analyzes.
In short tone, like whispering, Elijah Piyaguaje also speaks of the powers of the forest, the song of birds, the moon, the sun and the spiritual universe that lives in the Amazon.
His words, full of life, seem to be far from the mercantilist logic that still dominate the world.
............
More information: www.texacotoxico.org
