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Aaron Marr Page on the Special Rapporteur Letter
Aaron Marr Page responds constructively to my post on his letter to the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders. I’ll briefly respond to one point and add one observation. As someone who watched things unfold, I can say that Ted’s speculative claim that “the reason Chevron’s threats were so potent was because……
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Lago Agrio: The LAPs Approach The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders
The Europe / Third World Center and LAP advocate (and Letters Blogatory contributor) Aaron Marr Page have submitted a letter to the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michael Forst. It seems highly unlikely to me that the letter will result in anything changing in the case, but I thought it was……
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Lago Agrio: Guerra Unravels?
The transcripts of the Track 2 hearings in the Lago Agrio BIT arbitration have now been made public. In this post I want to focus on the proceedings of April 23 and 24, namely, the cross-examination of Alberto Guerra Bastidas. Guerra, recall, was one of Chevron’s key witnesses—maybe the key witness if you had to……
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Lago Agrio: Oral Argument At The Second Circuit (And A Special Letters Blogatory Backgrounder)
Yesterday was a big day in the Lago Agrio case: oral argument in the Second Circuit. I was there, along with several other Chevronologists, partisans on both sides, and curious members of the public. One young lawyer I met had traveled from Chicago—by train!—just for the event. Happily, the judges didn’t disappoint. There was more……
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Lago Agrio: Amazon Watch Posts Chevron “Outtakes”
Yesterday Amazon Watch, an environmental group that has recently been in Chevron’s crosshairs, published a six-minute video showing one of the pre-inspection site visits that Chevron personnel conducted.