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What Can Tens of Millions of Dollars Buy Ecuador in the ‘Empire’? – Huffington Post

This inordinate amount of money being spent on typical PR services, coupled by the fact that MCSquared is run by several Ecuadoreans in the U.S. with strong ties to Correa’s regime — is a cause for concern. Not only because Rafael Correa is just as anti-U.S. and authoritarian as the late Hugo Chávez, but also because Ecuador has become a haven for money-laundering and organized crime. Read more >>

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August 6, 2014

This inordinate amount of money being spent on typical PR services, coupled by the fact that MCSquared is run by several Ecuadoreans in the U.S. with strong ties to Correa's regime -- is a cause for concern. Not only because Rafael Correa is just as anti-U.S. and authoritarian as the late Hugo Chávez, but also because Ecuador has become a haven for money-laundering and organized crime. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ezequiel-vazquez-ger/what-can-tens-of-millions_b_5638754.html" target="_blank">Read more >></a>

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Members of indigenous communities in the Amazon in Ecuador would like to know: What happened to the more than $20M reportedly raised on their behalf by now-disbarred NY lawyer Steven Donziger? #FollowtheMoney
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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:
https://t.co/7TqQ6sJhik

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