Quito, December 10 (RHC) --- Tens of thousands of participants from all over the world at the World Festival of Youth and Students, taking place in Quito, Ecuador, voiced their solidarity with the country, which has sustained irreparable environmental damage by oil exploration irresponsibly conducted in the Amazonian region by the US oil company Texaco and its parent, Chevron.
The oil company left behind hundreds of thousands of hectares destroyed by oil spills as a consequence of Chevron-sponsored irresponsible exploitation of oil fields in Ecuador’s Amazonian region.
Irreparable damage has seriously impaired the lives of Ecuadorean Amazonian tribes.
The participants in the 18th World Festival of Youth and Students put their hands in buckets of black ink and stained white bands of cloth set up in a central area of Quito, capital of Ecuador, in protest over the destruction of vast areas of the South American nation by the irresponsible actions of the American oil company.
Chevron is the parent company of Texaco, an oil company that pumped oil from Ecuador’s Amazonian region from 1964 to 1992, and left behind a deadly trail of destroyed areas where life has ceased to exist.
The livelihood, and even the survival, of local Ecuadorean tribes has been seriously compromised but Chevron and Texaco refuse to comply with a court ruling that declared them responsible for irreparable damage to Amazonian areas, where life is now impossible.
The participants in the World Youth and Student Festival currently underway in Ecuador heard from Ecuadorean Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, a full report on that nation’s judicial demand against Chevron and Texaco.
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