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. thank. you. it's. one is the gold the twelve sons of a crown when he wishes to rest he turns into a stone. he rules over 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
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and share them as we always have. 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
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and little food. in the olden days it was called no man's land the land would ne three and no past. nevertheless it has been infected for thousands of years. on
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a sea coolio shore. and each one native tribes were living in harmony with their environment and no contact with the rest of the world.
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however at the big. when they saw. the texaco workers decided. they gave them. when they had finished eating they took the bus and left. this isn't it because they say they negotiated for
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a bowl of rice and. when you know border. in the beginning everything looked great big machines but open roads in the jungle but then the pollution appeared. the bio diversity disappeared everything died because there were fires burning day
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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 do it. we had shamans that cured 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.
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through. just. before the arrival of the oil companies we could drink the river water but now we can only drink from
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a spring because the rivers are polluted it's. 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
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state people they claim the land as the desert of the area. tribes have been living there for hundreds of years but they said no one who lived there. 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
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a thing has no feelings. only forty years ago. it is twenty kilometers away from the border and field as the locals say when the three piece pewters. it is a town created by settlers. they were poor. blacks people. who came to work in
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a new industry filled with hope today there were thousands disappointed. it's. this pastor is grazed by animals produce the milk and meat go to the market. clearly here. it's ok. anyway there's oil here also.
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all this area all that you see is polluted with oil this entire place. 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. was known the
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impact of production water since the one nine hundred sixty s. under have systems in place for safe handling such as the reinjection in the 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 four 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
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false. the company began operating in eastern ecuador in one nine hundred sixty four using all the latest technologies next door as in the rest of the world. so what is said is pure propaganda by people who attack the company they are all
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busy seeking economic benefits wouldn't.
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for. 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.
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nothing else. they filled it with the earth in order to fill up the holes left out of the deep pollution. and on top of. the government. would be dumb. it's pure oil. 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
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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 seven percent more cancer cases than in other areas of the country which have no oil
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activity. thank. you we have the highest cancer rates in the ecuadorian amazon over fifteen hundred people have died from cancer. so people die from cancer all across the world causes and effects between oil and cancer have never been proven it has never been medically certified they say there are. with cancer well let's suppose there are no one has proven that it is because of the oil .
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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 the first allies they tell the oil is good for the here because they are shampoos with the world so you can take some oil and put it on your hair. 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.
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something i. mean yes. they were communities where children would chew the crude oil because it was think. it was like chewing gum things and no one absolutely no one told them those substances were toxic. nothing he never put up a fence saying but no entry for animals children or people. you know and so the pollution spread everywhere. the same people that chewed it like in the tanks. they shifted the crude oil floating on top of the rivers and dip their cup into
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a report. a series of attacks of the russian republic of. tourists were killed to the popular terrorist pool resort. later damaged. we can see across the middle east the u.k. government is selling to impressive regimes. with dozens more people dying in anti-government protests sweeping the middle east the u.k. is slammed for selling arms used to kill demonstrators. and cash for convicts former inmates in the u.s. claims the business are responsible for the country having the largest prison
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population in the world. six am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story three people have been killed two injured after a gunman opened fire on a tourist minibus in the russian republic of coverage you know ball-carrier a few hours later a cable tower at a ski lift at the resort of terror school was blown up now the hotels in the center of the busy tourist village have been evacuated after a suspected car bomb was discovered artie's catarina as are about has the details. despite the fact that it is of course located in russia's volatile north caucuses it has been perhaps one of the most calm and stable republics so these events that have unfolded in the last twenty four hours are certainly very stressful what originally started as an ordinary ski trip ended in tragedy when five people were making their way from a moscow to a resort in the russian republic of cuba in the on their way from the airport to

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