“Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ecuadoran counterpart Rafael Correa pledged Thursday to ramp up cooperation in energy and defence as the Kremlin seeks to revive Soviet-era ties with Latin America..”
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“Foreign pharmaceutical companies accepted on Wednesday Ecuador’s decision to bypass patents in order to produce less expensive generic versions of some patented drugs.”
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“Foreign pharmaceutical firms including Pfizer agreed Wednesday to accept Ecuador’s decision to bypass patents on 2,000 drugs in order to produce them locally or buy cheaper versions elsewhere.”
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“President Rafael Correa has asked the nation’s lawmakers to terminate investment protection agreements with 13 countries, Linda Machuca, a National Assembly member, said Wednesday.”
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“The governments of Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica and Venezuela, as well as other members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), signed the Deed of Commitment to create a grand-national company in the iron and steel sector.”
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An elaborate series of relationships between the Ecuadorian government, U.S. trial lawyers and activist groups show that strong economic and political ties exist in their efforts to put pressure on a small rural courtroom in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, to find Chevron guilty in an environmental lawsuit.
This interactive diagram highlights these relationships and provides an examination of the forces behind the lawsuit. The Web of Influence diagram shows that the legal case against Chevron in Ecuador is a coordinated effort by U.S. trial lawyers and activist NGOs working with the executive branch of the Ecuadorian government to influence the Ecuadorian judiciary to ensure a guilty verdict against Chevron.
“Karen Hinton, paid Washington, DC based PR representative for the Amazon Defense Coalition, is leveling a new baseless accusation against bloggers who are raising legitimate questions about the organization’s lawsuit against Chevron. Commenting on an article by Carter Wood titled “What 30,000?” Ms. Hinton makes the following remark…”
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“Germany has pledged $50 million a year as a contribution to the Yasuni-ITT project, which would see Ecuador compensated for not extracting oil from an Amazonian reserve, Ecuador’s president said Tuesday.”
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