{"id":12230,"date":"2016-09-08T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2016-09-03T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T01:46:30","slug":"the-empire-files-chevron-vs-the-amazon-inside-the-killzone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=12230","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Files: Chevron vs. the Amazon &#8211; Inside the Killzone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. court just handed another victory to the oil giant Chevron Texaco, in its decades-long battle to avoid paying damages it owes in one of the worst environmental disasters in history.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the Ecuadorean Amazon, the most biodiverse area of the world, the energy titan deliberately poisoned 5 million acres of pristine habitat and subjected tens of thousands of indigenous peoples to destruction of their health and culture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Part 1 of &#8216;Chevron vs. the Amazon,&#8217; Abby Martin takes The Empire Files inside Chevron Texaco&#8217;s Amazon killzone to see the areas deemed &#8220;remediated&#8221; by Chevron, and spoke with the people living in the aftermath.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the-empire-files-579437\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the-empire-files-579437\/\" data-servicelink=\"CGQQ6TgiEwiA74PRvvTOAhXIgZwKHYn2B1Yo-B0\">http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dB7hrQUgIcw?list=PLNAlnQ4hvLtTAJcIEcfvfHbMv2omP_rHC\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. court just handed another victory to the oil giant Chevron Texaco, in its decades-long battle to avoid paying damages it owes in one of the worst environmental disasters in history.\u00a0 In the Ecuadorean Amazon, the most biodiverse area of the world, the energy titan deliberately poisoned 5 million acres of pristine habitat and subjected tens of thousands of indigenous peoples to destruction of their health and culture.\u00a0 In Part 1 of &#8216;Chevron vs. the Amazon,&#8217; Abby Martin takes The Empire Files inside Chevron Texaco&#8217;s Amazon killzone to see the areas deemed &#8220;remediated&#8221; by Chevron, and spoke with the people living in the aftermath.\u00a0http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,684],"tags":[799,326,1033,790,84,815],"class_list":["post-12230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-centralandsouthamerica","tag-abby-martin","tag-amazon","tag-chevron","tag-empire-files","tag-feature","tag-telesur"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12231,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions\/12231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}