Santiago Escobar is receiving death threats -- even to his parents’ home. And Chevron is behind them.

Santiago bravely took the oil giant on, blowing the whistle on Chevron's systematic cover-up of horrific environmental devastation in the Amazon.

Thanks in part to his testimony, the Supreme Court of Ecuador ordered Chevron to pay out $11 billion in damages -- and now Chevron’s out for blood.

Will you chip in to keep Santiago safe?

Chevron dumped 16 billion gallons of toxic waste into Amazon rainforest. It operated oil wells meters away from homes where young children lived, and made a calculated choice to put profit over people. Now, cancer rates are skyrocketing for farmers and indigenous communities.

Now, Chevron is using publications it funds to smear Santiago. In response, he is receiving death threats. The death threats got so bad in 2010 that he had to wear a bulletproof vest.

But this is exactly how Chevron operates all across Ecuador and Latin America. For the past 30 years, anyone opposing Chevron's impunity in Ecuador has been intimidated, surveilled and spied on with complete impunity. All over Latin America, communities opposing corporate power are intimidated, threatened and killed.

But together we are helping to change that. Over 180,000 SumOfUs members got FMO development bank to stop investing in the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras. This news came after Berta Caceres, a prominent indigenous rights activist was murdered in her home for her work delaying the construction of this mega-dam.

Santiago is a hero, not an enemy. Let’s tell Chevron enough is enough. When it picks on one of us, it picks on all of us.

Will you chip in to keep Santiago safe?

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