July 29, 2009  ECrisis readers will enjoy the following summary of the president Correa- U.S. anti US actors and their plans underway to criminally extort almost $30 billion  from yet another U.S. business. It correctly reads like a summary judgment of their crimes:

“On the surface, it has all the makings of a classic David vs. Goliath tale -- an ostensibly exploitative multinational oil company plundering the pristine rain forests of impoverished, indigenous inhabitants.  The $27 billion lawsuit against the Chevron Corporation was brought by a group of U.S. trial lawyers working in conjunction with the Amazon Defense Coalition (ADC) claiming to represent 30,000 Ecuadorians alleging environmental damage and cancer deaths caused by toxic-waste dumping from oil drilling.  It represents the largest damages claim ever sought in an environmental case to date.

However, closer scrutiny of the lawsuit, including an evaluation of an allegedly independent investigation and the tendentious posture of the Ecuadoran court and president reveals a well-orchestrated smear campaign with false and misleading evidence and corruption at the highest levels of government in an attempt to pry money from an American oil company with deep pockets….” Read this article here.
 
We sincerely commend the author here and Chevron Texaco for once again trying to get the facts out.  We hope they keep it up.

We have said before here that under the Correa team, no one has any justice in Ecuador. It is an ALBA bloc cartel with a constitution that denies any rights except as parsed out by the one central actor in all this, Correa and all acts and all rights are....at his leave and for his pleasure. Chevron Texaco's biggest mistake- and it could still cost them their entire company- was in following the same mandate that Ecuadoreans followed... that each believes that he or she can out-manipulate the ALBA fake democracy system of fake justice.

This fantasy of out running evil or pretending that one can outmaneuver total state control is  irresponsible and as Chevron has found out, never works. It has long puzzled us as to why Chevron Texaco deemed it best to pretend that Ecuador is a place with law and order just because the U.S. Department of State incomprehensibly says it is when it is not and has not been for many years. Indeed, State Department deserves a law suit for misleading U.S. businesses, entrapping them in to losing lots of money by refusing to state the facts. But the U.S. Department of State cannot be sued really. But culpability by numerous actors remains.
 
The article above also fails to determine who has been funding these specious law suits against Chevron over the years. It is a huge amount of money. The puny so called non profits do not have that kind of money nor does head counsel- and Obama chum Donziger's law firm. Most tell us that Correa has kicked in Ecuadorian monies but that still does not account- nor even get close- to how much has been spent on all this since 1993. Where is the claimant's money coming from? Who is feeding and funding these people? It is part of the story and the facts are warranted. Donziger is not some nice GREEN lawyer. His so called earthy NGO front groups are not some do gooder outfits to help the birds and bees. Certainly the U.S. Embassy in Quito has every right to know who and what they are aiding and abetting and where they get their money from as the Embassy affords the claimants staff help, security and promotionals to help them fight against Chevron Texaco. Who is backing all this? You can ask.