Ecuador's lawsuit (which it can now be called officially since Ecuador would get any award money Chevron would have to pay) has a new judge after Judge Juan Nunez officially stepped down in the wake of the alleged video bribery scandal. He is Judge Nicolas Zambrano.
The plaintiff's attorney, Pablo Fajardo, said this according to Ecuadorreport Blog:
Pablo Fajardo, who leads the team of Lago Agrio plaintiffs that sued Chevron for damages, said that the fact that the recusal was accepted could be seen as a victory for Chevron, although he added that this will only be temporary.
Yeah, especially since Judge Nunez was part of a political effort led by President Correa to get money from Chevron, apparently for the cronies in Correa's political party, at least from my view. Now the automatic "yes" to the idea that Chevron would be found guilty of something that was really done by Ecuador's state run oil company and a large number of oil firms since Chevron left Ecuador in 1992, is gone.
Maybe.
Meanwhile, and in further proof of the sham idea that the lawsuit's brought by Ω's "indigenous" people rather than American trail lawyers, we have the news that real indigenous people are protesting against Correa's proposed water policy which they believe would result in water being controlled by energy companies.
Now go figure: Ecuador's top prosecutor admits on the record that the country will get any money from a possible Chevron lawsuit loss, not the "indigenous people". Then we have new violence between those groups and the government. Correa failed to give them any say in the use of the land by the oil companies active there.
Guess why? Well, one of those companies is state-run oil producer Petroecuador, which would find itself under the control - to a degree - of the residents impacted by there operations.
How long before they realize that the lawsuit's not going to help them either, especially when they get wind of the news that 90 percent of the money's going to the same Ecuador government they're protesting against.
Wild.
Zennie you are such a pathetic tool of Chevron. The only material that you don't get from Chevron's press releases are your totally unfounded assertions that ayone familiar with the case would scoff at. Correa was using Nuñez to extort money from Chevron? Evidence, please? And don't even try to pass off that phony video of a used car salesman who only shook Correa's hand once talking to a Chevron contractor and an unknown US businessman about bribes as evidence of the president being tied to a massive conspiracy because it's laughable. Do you think that putting the word "indigenous" in quotes somehow makes them less indigenous? And given that the case was originally filed in New York (where Chevron argued successfully that it had to be tried in Ecuador, although now they insist that it shouldn't be tried anywhere), why is it unusual for one of their lawyers to be American? You do realize that's necessary in order to file a lawsuit in the US, right?
ReplyDeleteAnd for all the play you give to the one anti-Correa demonstration this week (which was in a completely different part of the country), you totally ignored the much larger anti-Chevron demonstration by indigenous and other local residents in Lago Agrio. Did you somehow miss that news, or did you just decide that it wasn't relevant but a smaller demonstration completely unrelated to this case was? What a joke.
Amazon Watch, on the other hand, has covered BOTH demonstrations exensively, proving that they are far more objective than you are even though they are openly involved in the campaign to clean up this region of Ecuador and you pretend to be an "independent" blogger.
Very soon the US Congress will pass a law that will require you to reveal the compensation that you've received from Chevron, and I for one am not going to let you off the hook for your outrageous history of self-serving lies.
And Richard, you're a tool, period. You don't know what your talking or writing about and I would best you in an in-person debate hands down.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me, I'm supposed to be paid by Chevron because I disagree with you and Amazon Watch? I'm supposed to just bow down to your incredible bullshit?
Give yourself a break. Please.
I've challenged Amazon Watch to an open debate. They've ran away from my challenge, so I win.
Oh I see. You "win" because you're so obnoxious that no one wants to be in the same room as you? You made no attempt to refute anything that I said, as usual.
ReplyDeleteObviously you can't read, but for the record, I have many times. Again, debate me. What do you have to lose, except your arrogance.
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