"Yikes! I Might Be...Militia!"
San Francisco blogger Zennie Abraham reported in a post today that Amazon Watch and others like to argue that the government of Ecuador is not a party to the $27 billion environmental lawsuit Amazon Defense Coalition is waging against Chevron Corporation in an Ecuadoran court. In the paragraphs below, I offer evidence that seems to prove very easily that Zennie is right. My proof comes from none other than Washington Pesantez, the South American country’s prosecutor general.
Sources close to the case tell me that, amidst the furor over Chevron’s release of video tapes that appear to implicate Ecuadoran government officials — including President Rafael Correa and Juan Nunez, the judge who was hearing the case but has since recused himself — in a $3 million bribery scheme, Pesantez held a press conference Sept. 4 in his Quito office.
During that press conference, Pesantez said a number of amazing things, one of which stands out: he stated that 90 percent of the $27 billion award pending against Chevron would go to the government of Ecuador. To understand exactly what he said, read the transcript of the prosecutor general’s press conference in English or Spanish.
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1 Proving Amazon Watch, Others Wrong Too Easy « The Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit Clearinghouse // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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2 CELB // Sep 17, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Proving Amazon Watch wrong…so true Bob. Some other posts responding to Amazon Watch.
See: http://chevronecuador.blogspot.com/2009/09/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-blog-media.html
And…
http://chevronecuador.blogspot.com/2009/09/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-blog-is_08.html
3 Amazon Watch is wrong: Ecuador to get 90 percent of Chevron damage award « The Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit Clearinghouse // Sep 18, 2009 at 7:05 am
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5 Amazon Defense Coalition // Sep 18, 2009 at 11:16 am
The assumption that the Ecuadorian government is a party to the lawsuit, since even if it isn’t named it will receive the proceeds from it, is incorrect. The Pesantez statement must be understood within the context of Ecuador’s law.
What the prosecutor general was alluding to was that, under Ecuadorian law, 10% of the award would go to the Amazon Defense Coalition and 90% would be administered directly for remediation costs under a public trust mandated by government legislation.
The government would not be entitled to any of the actual award.
6 hotoffthepress2 // Sep 18, 2009 at 11:20 am
SPIN! SPIN! SPIN! Sounds like Bill Clinton: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
7 Amazon Watch, CRUDE and the Chevron Head-fake « Ecuador, Chevron & Max // Sep 18, 2009 at 11:38 am
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