Crude Movie Producer / Director Joe Berlinger and Lawyer Steven Donziger should have answered the call to my Chevron Ecuador Challenge. Since it's plain to anyone, especially New York U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, that Berlinger has hidden video information relevant to the Chevron Ecuador case, Joe could have saved himself the embarrassment of what happened this week.
Judge Lewis Kaplan has now ordered Joe Berlinger to make himself available to Chevron's lawyers. An amazing turn of events that will most certainly result in the outing of Donziger's case for the sham lawsuit it has been all along.
As this blogger has aggressively stated, Donziger saw an opportunity to collect billions of dollars by presenting a weak case and enlisting the assistance of the Government of Ecuador, while pretending that Ecuador wasn't involved in the lawsuit. His cover? The people of the Amazon, who Donziger claimed to represent.
That argument was destroyed in this space, when evidence was presented proving that the Government of Ecuador itself would collect 90 percent of any damage award that would come from the case, should Chevron lose it. That makes Ecuador itself a party to the lawsuit. Over and above the people of the Amazon, Ecuadorian President and the bizantine and corrupt political system there would have its grubby hands on the money from the Chevron Ecuador case.
Care to lay a bet how much of that money is seen by Ecuador's poor in any way?
Meanwhile Petroecuador and other non-American oil companies have been free to spill oil in the region since Chevron's departure in 1992. Yet, the media has been duped into presenting the facade that American Oil's at fault for Ecuador's problems.
There's no active oil-producing American company in Ecuador as of this writing.
This, learning of what comes of Joe's visit with Chevron's lawyers, is going to be fun.
Stay tuned.
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