This is Pablo Fajardo. He's the guy who, along with Luisianza won the Goldman Prize back

in 2008 for his work fighting Texaco and then Chevron in Ecuador. Remember Chevron took an ad

out about how he and Luis were frauds. Fajardo was actually the lead attorney on the case against

Chevron in Ecuador. But because Chevron targeted Don Zaguer in its press push, he shows up less

and less in stories about the case from 2010 onward. But he's still working on it today. We're

going to get into more of that as the season goes on. But first, a quick recap because we're halfway

through this season and it's a very complicated story. Okay, so to recap, from the late 1960s to 1990,

Texaco drilled for oil in the Ecuadorian rainforest. The company helped to start the oil industry

there. A large group of both indigenous and non-indigenous residents say Texaco left a big mess

and they should clean it up. An Ecuadorian lawyer named Cristobal Boneyfaz first filed a suit

against Texaco in New York in 1993. When Chevron bought Texaco in 2001, it inherited this case which

was still going on. Like Texaco before it, Chevron lobbied for the case to be tried in Ecuador.

In 2003, the New York court's agreed and the case was refiled this time against Chevron in Ecuador.

At this point, Boneyfaz kind of fades into the background, Donziger and Fajardo start to get a lot

more involved and they start to bring worldwide attention to the case. But still, it drags on for

years and years and years. When we left off last time, it was 2009. The plaintiffs were on a bit

of a winning streak and Chevron was gearing up for a fight. Or really another round in this fight.

I haven't called this season Le Luch and Moon Glove or nothing. In episode 4, we dug into the

details of one particular tactic, filing a complaint before an international arbitration tribunal.

That happened in September 2009. Weeks before that complaint was filed,

Chevron released on YouTube a batch of videos taken with hidden spy cameras. Like those pen

cameras that you see in novelty shops or advertise in Sky Mall, teeny tiny cameras hidden inside

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