March 6, 2008  We at ECrisis are fans- really big boosters-  of dialogue, talking, resolving and Getting to YES! We also believe in Correa and Evo Morales’s fake religion called Pachamama, complete with fake feathers from China’s manufacturers. We also believe in shamans, the power of the Pink Curtain, the rule of Gay Men’s Bath Houses and every other fake lunacy offered up these days to pretend tat all is normal in Ecuador when… nothing is normal. All is manipulative and false, including Correa’s upcoming fake money, his fake democracy, his fake accountability, his fake marriage, his fake rule of law, his fake PetroEcuador and his fake clamp down on the FARC and his ardor for Iran’s money laundering business. No wait- Correa’s money laundering is real- the rest are fakes- frauds- lies.
 
If you believe for one second that there is anything at all to diplomatically obsess over about the specious lies currently whapping Chevron Texaco over the head, then you will believe the brand new class action suits claiming that U.S. oil companies have destroyed all the world and now do owe the world reparations.

And you believe that diplomacy will suddenly gift these trial lawyers for the morally insane a new set of ethics.
 
For our part, we do not know why Chevron needs to exercise with the liars against them. Maybe it is a show. Maybe it is to exhibit rank stupidity as they slide in to an extortion pay off to Mr. Donziger and his New York lawyers with Rafael Correa over some mysterious crime that Chevron never committed in Ecuador. Maybe Chevron likes to bribe these awful actors. We however find no evidence to further this. And so we have to assume this was a Show Set with the liars to try to calm them down. How is that working out for Chevron? Here is what happened because Chevron’s advisors are determined to hurt their own company by paying layers upon layers of shady actors to dance around the fact that they have done nothing wrong and the so called lawsuit against Chevron- which is not a lawsuit at all- must end now. The whole matter is a mockery- more like Dancing with the Stars in Lago Agrio for fake reality in a time and a place with fake justice, fake integrity and fake reality.
 

 
Important First Steps – Chevron and Rainforest Action Network Meet, Share Common Ground
Thursday, Mar. 4th 2010
This past Tuesday, executives from Chevron hosted a meeting in San Ramon including Cofan representative Emergildo Criollo and advocates from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) as well as Amazon Watch.  Following the meeting, Chevron’s Manager of Global Issues and Policy, Silvia Garrigo posted the following comment to RAN’s blog:
“This is Silvia Garrigo from Chevron.  I want to thank RAN for the opportunity yesterday to meet with Emergildo, Maria, and Mitch.  Spending an hour together in our headquarters and hearing Emergildo’s story was a valuable experience.  We can all agree that his personal story is moving and heartfelt.  And we can all agree that there are unacceptable environmental conditions in Ecuador’s Amazon.  While there may be many areas where we do not agree, it is important for us to listen to each other.  We believe RAN and Chevron can share common ground on some important points.  Thank you again for meeting with us.  We look forward to continuing a constructive dialogue.”
Chevron views Tuesday’s meeting as an important first step towards building trust.  It is our hope that subsequent meetings can move future conversations past rhetoric and towards a constructive dialogue about solutions.
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A dialogue for solutions? How about the so called plaintiffs take their lies and drop their fake law suit? How about the people of Ecuador act to end Correa’s reign of terror and disgrace and fraud? Someone- anyone? Able and willing to speak some facts? Any forensic audits yet on PetroEcuador and Correa’s graft?
 
Currently, U.S. Senators Dodd and Lugar apply the same pretense of  “dialogue” to the utterly corrupt OAS and its leader Insulza- calling for dialogue. As anyone with a brain knows, the Dodd-Lugar matter is a substance free ploy- a deceit to postpone any honest fact finding about the corrupt OAS….hidden under the ploy of “dialogue.” There is an invaluable role for dialogue but it must be predicated on facts. Otherwise, it is a current fact-hiding scam. Chevron hopefully has figured this out. No wait- we are in dialogue with Donziger and Correa. Never mind that these men want to kill off Chevron on false grounds. Never mind that they say -use diplomacy, which is a tool but is never the sine qua non of life. It can be helpful but when two sides are diametric- one lies and the other pretends it cannot deal with those lies, the parallels collide in a murky, muddled and expensive mess.  And both sides usually lose a lot. This they cheer as long as the game continues until… subversion, exhaustion and fuzzy thinking gainsays. This is not stewardship and is no solution. But it is expensive.

How is that fact free dialogue working out for you? Have you resolved- settled- evil diplomatically by pretending that nothing is wrong yet even as the so called victims seek to bankrupt a company for no cause? Feeling better yet?

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis