Amazon Defense Coalition: Beware of Chevron, Ecuadorians Tell Brazil

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2011 DEC 9 -- Brazil should treat Chevron's claims about the oil spill off the coast of Rio province with great skepticism given its track record of fraud related to an even larger oil disaster in neighboring Ecuador, say Ecuadorian rainforest leaders who successfully sued Chevron and recently were awarded $18 billion in damages. "Do not trust Chevron," said Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo, who led the lawsuit against the oil giant. "Chevron took our oil, polluted our rainforest, harmed and killed our people, committed fraud, and then tried to cover it up."