This is Maria Agimla, an Indigenous woman in Ecuador, singing about the damage that

oil companies have done to her community.

She was the lead plaintiff in the case against Texaco and then Chevron in Ecuador.

It's usually referred to as the Agimla case after her.

In the decades since the case began, there have been various attempts, alternately, to

lionize and discredit her, to cast her as a victim of the oil companies or as a pawn

of the plaintiff's attorneys.

There is a mountain of situations like this in this case, where one side says one thing,

the other side says the exact opposite thing, and there's no way that both could be true.

These sorts of things started to really pile up in 2008.

Five years after the case had initially kicked off again in Ecuador.

Basically, to close a pit require eight different steps.

This is Ricardo Résviga, who led Chevron's legal team in Ecuador on this case.

In this video with lots of cheesy sound effects, he's explaining the steps that Texaco took

back in the 1990s to remediate its drill sites in Ecuador.

You had to take the oil out.

You had to clean the sludge.

You had to treat the water and take the water out.

You had to pass tests on the water.

You had to solidify the bases.

Then you had to put new dirt and re-vegetate.

Around the same time that the case against Chevron was filed in Ecuador in 2003, the

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