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23 Jun 2007

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El Comercio [Ecuador]

Una Corte inició el juicio contra Dyncorp en EE.UU.

Ecuador ganó un ‘round’ en su lucha contra las fumigaciones en la frontera norte. La tarde del lunes, el juez Richard W. Roberts dio luz verde a un juicio estancado desde el 2001 en contra Dyncorp, la empresa...que hace las aspersiones en la frontera...Dyncorp deberá defenderse ante el juzgado de Roberts en Washington. La empresa norteamericana afronta otras tres demandas ecuatorianas en...Florida...En diciembre del 2000, según la demanda, cuatro niños ecuatorianos murieron y muchas personas resultaron afectadas en su salud como consecuencia del glifosato...[S]i [el juicio] le da la razón a los 10 000 ecuatorianos puede obligara a Dyncorp a pagar por los daños...Dyncorp ha asegurado que el herbicida usado es totalmente inofensivo para la salud de los campesinos y que difícilmente pudo afectar a los ecuatorianos.

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