Contrary to the claims of an attempted shakedown by a corrupt Ecuadorean government and sympathetic PC sniveling by activists and the press in the U.S., records show Texaco, now owned by Chevron, had cleaned up its share of oil production sites before leaving Ecuador in the late 1990s and that the Ecuadorian government is solely responsible for the current environmental and social conditions in the Amazon.
The Ecuadorean government had embroiled Chevron in a $9 billion lawsuit. But a U.S. court has ruled the lawsuit against Chevron, headquartered in San Ramon California, was procured by fraud, extortion, bribery, and falsification of materials by the plaintiffs and a dishonest Ecuadorian judicial system.
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