Chevron is threatening the Ecuadorian whistleblower that testified against it in court and forced it to pay billions for environmental destruction in the Amazon.
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 lid 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.
Tell Chevron to leave Santiago Escobar alone.
Chevron deliberately dumped 16 billion gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest. It operated oil wells meters away from homes where young children lived, and now cancer rates are skyrocketing for farmers and indigenous communities.
Chevron is using the publications it funds as a tool to smear Santiago’s name in retaliation. And now, he is receiving death threats.
This is exactly how Chevron operates all across Latin America. For the past 30 years, anyone opposing Chevron's impunity in Ecuador has been intimidated, surveilled and spied on without consequence. And all over Latin America, communities that oppose corporate power are intimidated, threatened and even 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.
Demand Chevron stop bullying activists.
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Ecuador Activist Accuses Chevron of Harassment and Defamation
Truth-Out. 24 May 2016.
Truth-Out. 24 May 2016.