Oil Interests in the Amazon

Companion to Trinkets & Beads (1996) Documentary film

and Joe Kane’s Savages (1995)

See Wiki site on Rachel Saint, the evangelical missionary who lived among the Huaorani (on and off from 1956-76) and has been accused of enabling the oil interests in Ecuadorian Amazon

See info on Recent Controversy involving Chevron:
Chevron Toxico, the website of Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign, includes new video of affected Ecuadorians urging Chevron´s CEO to clean up oil pollution:
http://chevrontoxico.com/

Wall Street Journal, "Chevron Plaintiffs Ask U.S. Court for Action":
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704363504575003153443151606.html

Politico, "Chevron's lobbying campaign backfires":
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29560.html

The Huffington Post, "Chevron and cultural genocide in Ecuador",
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kerry-kennedy/chevron-and-cultural-geno_b_346257.html

Los Angeles Times, "Oil, Ecuador and its people":
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/28/opinion/ed-chevron28

"CRUDE. The Real Price of Oil", Joe Berlinger´s award-winning documentary film that chronicles the epic battle to hold oil giant Chevron accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian - official website:
http://www.crudethemovie.com/