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30 Jul 2008

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Summary profile: Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador)

In 1993, a group of Ecuadorian citizens of the Oriente region filed a class action lawsuit in US federal court against Texaco (Aguinda v. Texaco), and in 1994 a group of Peruvian citizens living downstream from the Oriente region also filed a class action lawsuit against Texaco in US federal court (Jota v. Texaco)...

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