* Ecuador: The judge overseeing an environmental damage case against Chevron withdrew himself days after the oil giant claimed that they secretly videotaped him in a bribe scheme.* Cuba: Belgium became the latest European country to agree to house an inmate from the U.S.-controlled Guantanamo Bay prison.
* Mexico: A suspected member of Mexico’s Juarez drug cartel has been arrested and charged with the murders of seventeen people at a Ciudad Juarez drug rehab center last week.
* Argentina: The government refused to accept further aid from the International Monetary Fund despite credit problems.
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Ecuador vs Chevron
ReplyDeleteThose tapes were fabricated to delay the ruling but Chevron did such a lousy job that it looks like it’s going to backfire. Even Chevron’s translation is inaccurate. The judge said there are formalities related to the appeal, not that the appeal was only a formality as Chevron translated it. The judge recused himself so the case can move on even though nowhere in the tapes did he really accept the bribe; which by the way was not mentioned until Chevron found out these two men were taping the officials.
Scientific evidence has proven the case against Chevron and I hope none of those dirty tricks will work and Chevron will be held responsible.
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