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Article

3 Mar 2005

Author:
Michael Voss, BBC

Ecuador tribes vow to fight oil threat

...Ecuador...is believed to be sitting on huge untapped reserves of oil and gas...Much of it, though, lies beneath remote areas of the Amazon rainforest...Now the indigenous people of the region are starting to organise themselves politically in a bid to keep the oilmen out of their ancestral homes. [refers to ChevronTexaco]

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