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Ecuador’s president is going “soft” on drug mules – Quartz

This won’t heal strained US-Ecuador relations. Ecuador is emptying its prisons of convicted drug ‘mules’ in an unprecedented rebuke to what President Rafael Correa has labeled as harsh drug laws imposed by Washington. ‘Mules’ are individuals who are paid-sometimes lucrative sums by drug cartels to smuggle narcotics out of the country. Their destination is usually the US, the largest drug market in the world. Read more>>

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October 8, 2014

Spring is here and, true to form, paid protestors are gearing up for another season of state-sponsored activism and judicial intimidation. The few remaining supporters of the “legal fraud of the century” have already begun a year of manufactured campaigns against Chevron, paid for by the government of Ecuador. <a href="http://theamazonpost.sitedistrict.com/will-ecuadors-paid-protestors-get-a-raise-this-year/">Read more>></a>

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#Factsmatter: An international arbitration panel found ‘no cogent evidence’ supporting #Ecuador’s claim that #Texaco failed to comply with terms of remediation in #Amazon. https://t.co/7TqQ6sJhik

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The @WSJ sums this case up nicely, “[Steven Donziger] and his team fabricated evidence, promised $500,000 to an #Ecuadorean judge to rule in their favor, ghostwrote much of the final verdict and took other actions that ‘perverted’ the course of #justice. Mr. Donziger disputes the… https://t.co/soQ1qreULA

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Shameless. Disbarred and convicted of criminal contempt of court for bribing an Ecuadorian judge in an attempted extortion scheme, @SDonziger is nonetheless accepting invitations to speak at #climate rallies. Read more about this adjudicated racketeer: https://t.co/5eac0lRmN7

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Sworn testimony: While Texaco met its environmental obligations in the Amazon, #Ecuador’s national oil company did “absolutely nothing” to address its own remediation in the area. #FactsMatter:
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DENIED: @SCOTUS rejects hearing case of Steven Donziger, who bribed Ecuadorian judge in failed effort to bilk Chevron for billions of dollars. https://t.co/zT0dlozk5R

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