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Latin America + Caribbean
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“Like a War on the Environment” —Texaco’s 30 Years in Ecuador
Decades after winning their case against Chevron, Ecuadorian plaintiffs are still suffering from poisoned water and soil.
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2010 Craig Robertson emails about ad budget and messaging
Emails between Chevron staff and their ad agency about an ad campaign attacking various members of the Lago Agrio litigation team.
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Fine & Associates Borja Investigation Report Summary
Report on contents of approximately six hours of recorded conversations and 25 pages of printouts of on-line chats between Diego Borja, a former Chevron contractor who conducted the secret videotaping of a judge overseeing the environmental lawsuit in Lago Agrio (Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco), and a 32-year-old Ecuadoran, Santiago Escobar.
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Veiga email suggesting paid ads to attack plaintiffs and make Chevron points in Lago Agrio case
Emails between Chevron PR staff and external firms on attack ads focused on Lago Agrio plaintiffs.
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1946 Standard Oil report on Venezuela
A report from Standard’s PR firm, Earl Newsom & Associates, which had been sent to Venezuela to try to help with worker protests against the company’s subsidiary (Creole).
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1946 Earl Newsom Trip to Venezuela for Standard Oil of New Jersey
A packet of documents from the Earl Newsom Papers, housed at University of Wisconsin, Madison, covering Newsom’s trip to Venezuela for his client Standard Oil of New Jersey (the company known as ExxonMobil today) to develop a PR strategy to deal with increasingly fraught labor issues in the country, and to beat back the idea […]
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1945 Standard Oil of New Jersey in Venezuela
A packet of documents from the Earl Newsom Papers, housed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, chronicling Standard Oil of New Jersey’s dealings in Venezuela in 1945.
