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Lago Agrio: My Interview with Ambassador Cely
I traveled to Washington on Wednesday for an interview with Nathalie Cely Suárez, Ecuador’s ambassador to the United States, at the embassy in Washington’s Columbia Heights neighborhood. The building itself is a handsome Renaissance Revival-style mansion. I arrived a few minutes early and watched the comings and goings in the main room on the first…
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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: Patton Boggs On Offense
Patton Boggs, counsel to the Lago Agrio plaintiffs and now a target of Chevron in New York, has taken the offense in recent days, pushing back against the declaration of Christopher Bogart, the CEO of Burford Capital (the LAPs prior litigation funder), which basically threw Patton Boggs under the bus by claiming that the law…
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Lago Agrio Court: STJ Rejects Ecuadoran Judgment
The Chevronologists among you know that the Lago Agrio plaintiffs have tried to obtain recognition of their Ecuadoran judgment in three jurisdictions: Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. The attempt in Argentina failed last month. The proceedings in Canada were rejected by the first instance court in January 2017 but are still on appeal. The LAPs, perhaps…
