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Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico
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Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico

Nov 25, 2007
0h 40m
★ 0.0

Overview

The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitation of the Texaco company, forever transformed the rivers and estuaries, the forests and the life of the indigenous communities in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Diana Borja

Narrator

Diana Borja

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