Ecuador: Ecuador Amazon oil: Legal battle far from over

BBC: Servio Curipoma moved to Ecuador's Amazon rainforest in 1981, when he was only 10 years old. His parents, originally from southern Ecuador, decided to move to the Orellana region in the north-east of the country to seek their fortune. It was the era of Ecuador's oil boom, and US company Texaco was a pioneer in oil extraction in the region. But things didn't go as planned. The Curipoma family settled by an oil well that was then being operated by Texaco - something common at the time,......

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