The Colonizers: How Oil and Missionaries Shaped the Amazon
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Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Y hoy llegué a ese lugar en agosto de 1977. Y ahí vi, por primera vez, petróleo en las carreteras, en |
| 0:21.5 | las carreteras de la ciudad. |
| 0:34.0 | Este es Luis Yanza. |
| 0:35.5 | He movido a la Oriente de la area de la Ecuadoria en Amazonas, en la |
| 0:40.5 | luna de la país en los 70's. |
| 0:43.1 | Cuando se estábamos de la base en la Lago Agrio, la mayor ciudad en la |
| 0:47.4 | La constructora, como le jadeó, cuando conocí desde los |
| 0:54.4 | focosuş overall. |
| 0:56.3 | Luego seguí sacaban de agua, pero mantancían gaímosa. |
| 1:01.6 | Como bukan de otra cosa que loco de sonrato para |
| 1:11.6 | deMinoras |
| 1:16.3 | Katzussia Primero desbagó planos que produóBrán |
| 1:32.6 | Ayú km |
| 1:36.1 | All that the oil streets, the black clouds, the pits |
| 1:39.5 | Who created those and whose responsibility it is to clean them up |
| 1:43.8 | That's what's at the center of a lawsuit that started in 1993 against one company, Texaco |
| 1:51.3 | That suit has lasted through an acquisition Chevron acquired Texaco in 2000 |
| 1:56.9 | and multiple trials and settlements and appeals |
| 2:00.4 | Aspects of this case have been heard in courtrooms in Ecuador, New York |
| 2:06.0 | Canada, Argentina, and the Hague |
| 2:10.1 | An American lawyer, Steven Donziger, who met last time, is on house arrest and facing prison time for his role in the case |
| 2:18.4 | Jansa is still working on aspects of the case on the ground in Ecuador and in various other courts around the world |
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