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Indigenous Communities in Ecuador Fight to Hold Chevron Accountable
• http://thelibertybeat.com-Derrick BrozeThe complaint was submitted to the ICC's Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on behalf of at least 80 communities representing tens of thousands of people. The communities won a lawsuit in 2011 in an Ecuadorian court over Texaco's role in toxic waste dumping in northeastern Ecuador between 1964 and 1992. Chevron, who acquired Texaco in 2001, has refused to pay the $9.5 billion settlement ordered by the Ecuadorian courts.