A decade ago, a group of Amazonian villagers won a historic legal victory against one of the world's most powerful companies: Chevron. In 1964, the company arrived in Ecuador with a 1.5 million hectare concession in two Amazonian provinces. The oil giant admitted in court to dumping 17 million gallons of crude oil and harmful chemicals directly into rivers and lagoons in a particularly biodiverse region of the Ecuadorian rainforest. To this day, the inhabitants continue to live in the vicinity of the concession area, in a polluted environment and with precarious and neglected health.
