Newsday | Dureno Cofan, Ecuador - The jungle dwellers, barefoot and clad in tunics, thought a strange bird had dropped from the sky when the first Texaco helicopter touched down nearly four decades ago.Creeping through the lush underbrush, the Cofan tribe members approached the strapping men descending from the helicopter in ov
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Indigenous Huaorani Seek Oil Moratorium on Their Amazon Lands
Environmental News Service | Washington, DC - Members of the South American indigenous group, the Huaorani, are calling for a moratorium on all oil activities in their ancestral Amazonian lands in northeast Ecuador.
Is There Another Hugo Chavez in Latin America? An Exclusive Interview with Ecuador's New President
Democracynow.org | In a Democracy Now exclusive, investigative reporter Greg Palast reports from Ecuador where he interviews the country's new president, Alfredo Palacio, and takes a look at whether he will join the popular leftist movements in Latin America or will continue the neoliberal program of his predecessor.For today's broadcast
Ecuador Getting More Risky for Investors as Oil Contracts May be Altered
AFX News Limited | London - The risk of investing in Ecuador has risen after the country's energy minister, Fausto Cordovez, reportedly said that current oil contracts with foreign companies will be reviewed, CSFB said.
Ecuador Gets Chavez'd ... Bush Has Someone New to Hate Exclusive Report for the Nation
www.gregpalast.com | Greg Palast meets with Washington's newest bête noire of Latin America, Ecuador's President Alfredo Palacio, and discusses the confidential World Bank agreements that shackle his nation.Watch the exclusive broadcast from Ecuador this week on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!George Bush has someone new to hate.
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Sarayaku Update: Hearing before Inter-American Human Rights Court ratifies Sarayaku's arguments
Asunción, Paraguay – On May 11, 2005 Dr. José María Borja, Ecuador’s Attorney General, announced before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) his proposal to maintain the human rights protection measures in favor of the Sarayaku indigenous people.
Perú: Comunidades Machiguengas Rechazan Audiencia para Lote 56, Camisea 2
www.servindi.org | * Denuncian presiones y manipulación del MEM para realizar audiencia el 09 de mayo pero ellos no abrirán local comunal* Comunidad Shivankoreni exige transparencia y afirma que Camisea solo ha significado daños para el pueblo machiguengaDirigentes de la Comunidad Nativa Shivankoreni hicieron público que
Perú: Machiguenga Communities Reject Public Audience for Block 56, Camisea 2
www.servindi.org | * They denounce pressures and manipulation of the MEM to carry out audience May 09 and will not open communal localities * Community of Shivankoreni demands transparency and affirms that Camisea project has only brought about problems for the Machiguengas Leaders of the native community of Shivankoreni p
Chevron Defeats Amazon Shareholder Resolution
Energy Compass | A resolution from institutional investors to force ChevronTexaco to compile a report on its operations in Ecuador's Amazon region, where indigenous communities are suing it for alleged environmental damage, has been defeated for the second year running.
Pensions up Pressure Over Ecuador Spill Funds Call on ChevronTexaco to Resolve $6bn Rainforest Action
www.upstreamonline.com | CHEVRONTEXACO is coming under mounting pressure to resolve its $6 billionEcuador rainforest trial, which escalated significantly this week whenleaders representing the three largest public pension funds in the US calledon the company to take action to settle the dispute.Shareholders and other advocate
Protesters Throng ChevronTexaco
Contra Costa Times | San Ramon - More than 100 people – street theater performers, people in penguin suits and the son of a Nobel Prize winner among them – protested outside of ChevronTexaco's headquarters Wednesday morning as the company held its annual shareholders meeting inside.A small delegation of protesters was
Environmental Proposals Get Cold Shoulder
San Francisco Chronicle | ChevronTexaco shareholders at their annual meeting Wednesday rejected two proposals questioning the company's treatment of the environment, before the session ended in a verbal clash between an activist and the firm's top executive.Shareholders turned down a measure asking the oil giant to study how drilling could dama
Protesters Dog ChevronTexaco Annual Meeting About 100 Demonstrators Show up at San Ramon Shareholder Gathering
Oakland Tribune | San Ramon — About 100 protesters gathered outside ChevronTexaco headquarters in San Ramon on Wednesday to demonstrate against the oil giant.Beginning at 7 a.m., local residents and people from across the globe gathered outside the company's building, at Bollinger Canyon Road and Sunset Drive, along a makeshift stage
Critics Sound Off on ChevronTexaco
Contra Costa Times | San Ramon - After a year in which a company posts a record $13 billion in profits and sees its stock price rise 20 percent, what is there to complain about?Quite a lot, judging by a demonstration outside and comments inside ChevronTexaco Corp.'s annual shareholders meeting, which was held early Wednesday morning
Chevron Shoots Down Ecuador Shareholder Resolution Again
Oil Daily | ChevronTexaco shareholders defeated a resolution submitted by major institutional investors that sought to force the company to address litigation pitting it against native communities in Ecuador's Amazon region over alleged environmental violations.For a second straight year, a coalition comprised of California'
Environmentalists to Challenge Oil Giant 2 Resolutions Address ChevronTexaco's Role in Ecuador, Arctic
San Francisco Chronicle | Environmental activists will descend on ChevronTexaco's annual shareholders' meeting in San Ramon today, pushing two resolutions they hope will force the global oil giant to re-examine its ways.One asks the company to consider spending more time and money cleaning up a corner of the Ecuadoran Amazon where Texaco once p
New Problems for Burlington Resources’ Rainforest Drilling Plans
Company’s Questionable Agreements with Indigenous Leaders and Overthrown Ecuadorian Regime Leave Burlington’s Oil Project in Jeopardy(Houston)—On the day of Burlington Resources’ Annual Shareholder Meeting, the company’s involvement in two controversial oil blocks on indigenous territories in Ecuador’s sout
The Rainforest Chernobyl Amazonians Threatened with Extinction Address ChevronTexaco Shareholders in San Ramon – and Illustrate How the Quest for Dwindling Oil Reserves Poses a Global Threat
The San Francisco Bay Guardian | ChevronTexaco investors are in for an unsettling interlude when they gather for the annual shareholders' meeting at company headquarters in San Ramon April 27.
Amazon Pollution: Victims of 'Toxico' Environmentalists Estimate Around 2.5 Million Acres of Rainforest were Compromised or Destroyed in Texaco's Search for Oil in Ecuador - It is a Disaster that Has Left the Jungle Ravaged and its People Dying of Cancer
Independent UK | Rita Maldonado is a woman acutely aware that every day she is slowly poisoning herself to death.
Outrage Over CEO's Conduct -- Chevron CEO O'Reilly Reports Record Oil Profits, Then Shuts Down Microphone On Ecuadorians After Traveling Days From Rainforest, Carmen Perez Finds Out She Can't Speak Controllers from New York and California Join Forces to
San Ramon, CA — Perhaps angered by a call by large shareholders that the Ecuador situation be independently reviewed by the Board of Directors, ChevronTexaco CEO David O’Reilly Wednesday reported record oil profits and then promptly shut down the microphone on a prominent Ecuadorian rainforest leader before she had a chan
ChevronTexaco Faces Growing Shareholder Challenge and Public Protest for its Oil Disaster in Ecuador, Drilling in ANWR and War Profiting in Iraq
Media Advisory For Events on Wednesday April 27, 2005***Great Visuals! Interviews Available! Intrevistas en Espanol***Rally Outside the Company’s Annual Meeting in San Ramon WHAT: Amazonian Indigenous leaders, religious and community leaders from San Ramon, and human rights and environmental advocates
Letter to CEO of ChevronTexaco on Corporate Governance Concerns
Mr. David O’Reilly, Chairman and CEOChevronTexaco Corporation Inc.6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd.San Ramon, CA 94583Dear Mr.
ChevronTexaco Investors on Eve of Shareholder Meeting: Damage to Ecuadorian Amazon is Bad for Business as well as Environment Shareholders call for full disclosure of environmental and human rights liabilities Shareholder resolution proponents hold 2
San Francisco, CA – At a press conference today in San Francisco on the eve of ChevronTexaco’s annual shareholder meeting in San Ramon, representatives from the California state pension funds, social investment firms, and environmental and human rights organizations expressed concerns regarding ChevronTexaco’s activitie
Controversial Art Speaks: 'We want life'
Tri-Valley Herald | San Ramon — Humberto Piaguaje and Carmen Perez traveled thousands of miles from their native Ecuador to see a wall of pictures on display in San Ramon.Piaguaje, an indigenous Secoya, and Perez, an Ecuadorean public health worker, were on hand Monday night for the opening of an art exhibit titled "Crude Reflections: C
Powerful Photography Exhibit Shows the True Cost of Oil 'Crude Reflections: ChevronTexaco's Rainforest Legacy' debuts in San Ramon
***Great Visuals! Photos and Interviews Available!***WHAT: Crude Reflections: ChevronTexaco's Rainforest Legacy is a photography exhibit that chronicles the human impact of ChevronTexaco's oil pollution in Ecuador's rainforest region, and the Amazonian communities' efforts to restore the health of their families and
Exhibit Targets Oil Giant Tied to Rain Forest Wells
Contra Costa Times | Bianca Jagger is returning to San Ramon to criticize a former ChevronTexaco subsidiary's pollution of the Ecuadorian rain forest, helping to bring attention to a photo exhibit at a restaurant.The exhibit, featuring images from the rain forest region, is the latest jab at the San Ramon-based oil giant over environmental
Advancing the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Challenge for the International Community
Advancing the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples:A Critical Challenge for the International CommunityVoices from a forum at the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on Human RightsApril 13, 2005Presented by Amnesty International, la Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de
Ecuadorian Attorney General Tells ChevronTexaco Shareholders Remediation Agreement May Be Invalid
SocialFunds.com | The questionable validity of the remediation agreement indemnifying ChevronTexaco could carry implications for the lawsuit and beyond (part three of a multipart article).SocialFunds.com – An airplane whisked the ChevronTexaco (ticker: CVX) shareholder delegation from Coca, flying them over the Ecuadorian
COMARU Carta al Gobierno Peruano Sobre Lote 56
Comunidad Nativa Shivankoreni11 de abril de 2005SeñoraEcon. Iris Cardenas PinoDirectora GeneralAsuntos Ambientales EnergeticosMinisterio de Energia y MinasAsunto: Nuestra posicion con respecto a una audiencia publica el 2 de mayo (Ref. Oficio No.
