In the midst of an Amazonian oil boom, classified documents reveal deep links between oil companies and Ecuador's military. "These were all negotiated in secret," says the soft-spoken attorney and Ecuadorian congressional aide, explaining how he used a lawsuit last year to obtain pages of once-classified contracts between the Ecuadorian military and 16 multinational oil companies... and the rape of these poor, uneducated people and their land is multi-country, multi-conglomerate, and a fine example of the oil politics that created our own US energy policy and throttled the Iraq campaign of pre-emptive fossel fuel theft.
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