texaco was there for 25 odd years. texaco did what he was asked to do.is was not by dark of night american oil company comes in and takes all the profits out. this was done in close corporation with the ecuadorian government. the big problem was texaco left a big mess on the ground, waste oil pools, pollution, sprint waste oil on the roads to keep dust down. it looks like if you have an down there, what you might imagine the gulf coast of the united states look like in the 1920s except with rural ecuadorian poverty. 2001, chevron takes over texaco and inherits its legal problems, liabilities. a lawsuit has been filed in 1993 on behalf of the residents here in new york. that lawsuit was actually dismissed by the american courts on the assumption that the proper place for it to be played out was in ecuador. the lawsuit was restarted in ecuador in 2003 and the result of that lawsuit, some eight years later, was this huge victory for the ecuadorians. >> to the tune of -- >> initially, $18 billion plus. , theholding the verdict top court in a court or actuall

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left-wing press at the time of his lyric needed 20 years later that the united states had authorized the texacoil company, which was run by an out right nazi. they switched it to shipping to the fascist forces, which is the one thing hitler and mussolini couldn't provide good they couldn't find the left press could find it. going back, was that in the mid-south of the popular forces should fight a guerrilla war. that's the most beamish tradition. fight a guerrilla war being itself. in morocco, call for support the moroccan liberation forces that were trying to freedoms does from french and british imperial spanish imperial. there were troops, and from northern africa appeared a support them for imperialist control that we thought the fascist armies, just as in spain itself, the popular forests were fading. until they were crushed. well, if you read the scholarship, up until today, that is dismissed as a romantic to have the whole anarchist feminist. that was my initial exposure. last night >> hi, this is an unimaginable honor. thank you so much for doing this. he touched briefly -- you have thi

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reading in though left-wing press conceded 20 years later that the united states had authorized the texaco oil company run by the outcry open and not see authorize them to have a contract to ship oil to the republic but they switched to the fascist forces which is so one thing that hitler air and missile levy could go provide. but he proposed that state itself the popular forces shed to fight a the guerrilla war that is actually where they were initiated under napoleon in did morocco who call for support for the liberation forces trying to free themselves from french and braddish -- british shares spanish control. so his idea was to fight a revolutionary war to support them with the imperialists control he thought would be rhode the spanish just as the forces were fighting until they were crushed. if you read the scholarship that is dismissed as a romantic joke but i don't think it was. that was my initial exposure [laughter] >> teeeighteen this is an honor. you touched briefly you have this shelly quotation in and talk about culture i was going to ask you to reflect of the contemporary st