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one is the gold the twelve son of a crown when he wishes to rest he turns into a still. rules of the wild beasts of the jungle and when the shamans drink the way they come in contact with him and ask him to bring animals to the community. and when the animals come to the community we easily hunt them down with blowpipes and share them as we always have.
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however the oil companies that have come here place explosives and dynamite in the earth to get the oil out of it they have taken our land and they are killing quote unquote by sucking his blood and polluting nature with chemicals. so our god is dying and we have no animals to hunt as we used to live with diseases and little food.
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in the olden days it was called no man's land the land with no history and no past . nevertheless it has been infected for thousands of years the siona see coolio shorn. and each one native tribes who are living in harmony with their environment and no contact with the rest of the world.
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however at the big. underneath.
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when they saw. the texaco workers decided. they gave them. when they had finished eating they took the ball and spoons and left. this isn't it because they say that was negotiated for a bowl of rice and responds. when
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you know borders. in the beginning everything looked great big machines but open roads in the jungle but then the pollution appeared on. the biodiversity disappeared everything died because there were fires burning day and night. to go near the smoke stacks fall into the talks of tanks. i began to fall ill from endless as we didn't know if. we had shamans that cured
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with her but with the arrival of oil companies came many unknown diseases shamans tried to cure them but they couldn't because those diseases had just arrived. things. i've.
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just. learned before the arrival of the oil companies we could drink the river water but now we can only drink from a spring because the rivers are polluted it's.
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a good life for us means having a lot of space because we live from nature now we protect the little land we have left because of the oil companies there is a very small area left to us and that is why we now turn to handicrafts in order to survive. if the issue is that natives live there and the neighbors were considered by the states known people they claim that this land is the desert of the area. tribes had been living there for hundreds of years but they said no one lived there then
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texaco said all right since no one lives there we will dump our waste into the river and those are the rivers where the neighbors fished based drank water and lived from a jungle. but neighbors were considered useless expendable. they were not taken at all into consideration when. chevron texaco is not a human being like you and i. is a legal entity and such an entity cannot think such a thing has no feelings. only
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forty years ago. is twenty kilometers away from the border and field as the locals say three piece pewters. it is a town created by settlers. they were poor. blacks people. who came to work in a new industry filled with hope today there were thousands disappointed. it's. this pastor is grazed by animals
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produce the milk go to the market. clearly here. it's ok. anyway there's oil here also. all this area all that you see is polluted with oil this entire place.
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they never used membranes or any other material to prevent the absorption of hydrocarbons by the soil and they're spreading to other places no. production waters are closely linked to all oil produced energy. is known the impact of production water since the one nine hundred sixty s. and it has systems in place for safe handling such as the reinjection in the
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drilling. however here in ecuador these methods were never used. in the usa a country where they came from. and they applied a technology that didn't allow for any dumping in the reverse gas burning or leaving open waste pits. but here knowing full well they shouldn't do it they did so anyway. because that way they see billion dollars and the reason is it amounted to money why should they reject production water to save the lives of some poor natives. i say all this is absolutely false. the company began operating in eastern ecuador in one thousand nine hundred sixty four using all the latest technologies next door as in the rest of the world
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. so what is said is pure propaganda by people who attack the company there are all of us the seeking economic benefits. and.
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for.
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when i came here the pool had already being constructed back in the mountains it didn't seem that bad. then they say they cleaned and burnt the waste but they didn't. they only through wooden earth. nothing else.
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they filled it with the earth in order to fill up the holes left after the deep pollution. and on top of. the government. would be dumb. it's pure oil. can't records but the smell is absolutely disgusting. and when it's sunny the stench is even stronger. of course when it rains the toxic waste spreads elsewhere that is why pollution here is parametric. it has tremendous repercussions on the people and that is why in the amazon cancer rates are much higher. there are one hundred forty
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seven percent more cancer cases that in other areas of the country which have no oil activity.
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thank. you we have the highest cancer rates in the ecuadorian amazon over fifteen hundred people have died from cancer. that's so people die from cancer all across the world causes and effects between oil and cancer have never been proven it's never been medically certified they say there are. with cancer well let's suppose they are no one has proven that it is because of the oil . to see how they degrade the natives telling them all is a fertilizer for their plants and farm lands if there is a ceiling your property be happy for oil is
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a first allies what they tell them all is good for the here because they are shampoos with the world so you can take some oil and put it on your hair. in the areas the drinking water was proven polluted however they went there with a team performed analysis and told them you can export this water bottle it and export it it is very good quality water. before the oil companies refusal to recognize the destruction there was also a refusal to inform people about the damaging effects of oil and toxic substances stance just because something. must go on and they were communities where children would chew the crude oil because it will stick his face
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felt it was like chewing gum things and no one absolutely no one told him those substances were toxic. toxic gas nothing he never put up a fence saying but no entry for animals children or people. you know and so the pollution spread everywhere. people that chewed it like gum in the tanks. they shifted the crude oil floating on top of the rivers and dip their cup into drink no one had told them the substances were talks like the social status.
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thinks latest revelation showing the u.s. has been snooping on nato and using its leverage closer ties with russia. the way the alliance. saving young lives is a bridge to peace thousands of families from middle east countries fighting for their children are conditions. looking at how the. safe we are here on a. it's ten am in moscow i'm good to have you with us here on r t our top story it's no secret that nato revolves around the u.s.
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latest wiki leaks revelations are showing that it's domination of the alliance goes much further publish cables reveal that washington has been snooping on top nato officials and exerting heavy pressure on its allies to get its own way but he's carriers are of a has more. cat among the pigeons whistleblower week strikes again this time at the very heart of nido according to documents published by two european newspapers a u.s. mole was planted right in the office of the alliance's secretary general several of the cables revealed by wiki leaks and decayed america is trying to control nato from within reporting confidential information back to washington this point of view is supported by some of the documents allegedly sent by u.s. diplomat jeff rafter. when under spog rasmussen was looking for closer ties with the collective security treaty organization made up of former soviet states the us was quick to veto the idea of.

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