The Amazonian collective Unión de Afectados por Texaco denounced the presence of state actions to prevent the transnational Chevron-Texaco from covering the repair of more than 9,000 million dollars for the damages produced in the oil exploitation in Sucumbíos.

This March 23, representatives of indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, accompanied by their lawyer Pablo Fajardo, affirmed that the government of Guillermo Lasso would intervene in favor of the international oil company to prevent the respect of reparations of 9.5 billion dollars ordered by the Constitutional Court. (CC) in 2018, in favor of people affected by Texaco’s extractive activities.

These actions would be carried out through the office of the Attorney General of the State, which, under the administration of the former lawyer Íñigo Salvador, would have transmitted documents to the courts of Canada and Argentina to request that the prosecution brought by those affected by Chevron’s operations be dismissed. the group in a press release developed this Thursday.

In response, they decided to approach the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IDH Commission) to request that precautionary measures be taken to protect them from “undue interference by the Ecuadorian government”, in order to repair the violated rights and to prevent future interventions.

Pablo Fajardo assured that since 2018 the Constitutional Court has ordered a reparation of 9,500 million dollars for environmental damage to the plaintiffs, who are residents of Lago Agrio, so far they have not received any contribution.

This value was fixed in the processing of an extraordinary protection action brought by the transnational, but which was rejected by the constitutional judges of the time, who declared that there had been no violation of constitutional rights .

Chevron sought this remedy after the residents of Sucumbíos filed an environmental damage lawsuit in which they had rulings in their favor. (YO)