Several months ago the Ecuadoran government took the agencys advice on reforming the Ecuadoran economy.
For twenty-three years, a consortium of companies, led by Texaco, drilled wells throughout the Ecuadoran Amazon.
They recruited a team of Ecuadoran lawyers, and Donziger began making regular trips to the region.
Donziger attended, along with the lead Ecuadoran lawyer, Pablo Fajardo, and Cabrera himself.
They were represented by a fractious coalition of American and Ecuadoran lawyers, most of whom were working for contingency fees.
In 2003, Donziger and his colleagues re-filed their case, in Lago Agrio, despite their misgivings about the Ecuadoran legal system.
He was born in the Ecuadoran Amazon in 1964, and he has been involved in the case for nearly half his life.
An Ecuadoran businessman named Diego Borja had been hoping to secure a cleanup contract in the event of a judgment against Chevron.
Inflation is rising, and high interest rates are squeezing the Ecuadoran economy and red-inking the budget (interest on the national debt is now more expensive).
Texaco spent forty million dollars on the cleanup, and in 1998 the Ecuadoran government granted the company a release from any future claims against it.
He riffed, indignantly, about the inadequacies of the Ecuadoran legal system.
In the decade after Texaco began paving roads, a hundred thousand Ecuadoran settlers moved to the Oriente, lured by free acreage and the promise of work.
But Mastro argued that the outtakes exposed a criminal conspiracy, in which Donziger was exploiting the corruption of the Ecuadoran system to pressure Chevron into a huge settlement.
Dean Edward Rule, an American whose Conectiflor consultancy introduces new flower breeds to Ecuadoran growers, wants the U.S. Congress to see strains of moderation amid the revolutionary rhetoric.
As the Farley sailed from Puerto Ayora, Watson wrote me a long e-mail from the radio room, in which he declared his intention to stay and look for poachers in Ecuadoran waters.
"This is the most highly successful antidrug program in the world, and it doesn't cost the U.S. taxpayer anything, " pleads Jeff S. Sheedy, an American who heads the Ecuadoran association of textile manufacturers and is one himself.
There's Walter, a Vietnam War veteran and former Chelsea Hotel bouncer who soothes his post-traumatic stress disorder with alcohol, and Nuve, an Ecuadoran immigrant whose intense drive to house and school her five children is paving an upward path.
Piaguaje had flown to New York to attend an oral argument before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, centering on whether Judge Kaplan had the authority to stop the plaintiffs from collecting on the Ecuadoran judgment anywhere in the world.
Since taking office he has threatened to default on Ecuador's foreign debt, expelled the chief World Bank representative from Ecuador, sued an Ecuadoran journalist for writing a column that criticized him and threatened to pass a law further capping private banks' interest rates.
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