THE AMAZON CHERNOBYL

1. The Provincial Court of Sucumbíos, a province of the Republic of Ecuador, handed down a ruling (referred to as sentencia in Spanish), upholding, on the merits, the order for damages made against Chevron in a lawsuit filed (before the same court) by Maria Aguinda Salazar and her co-parties, who are the applicants in this request for recognition (doc.2). The Court upheld the order for damages, merely rejecting Plaintiffs’ request for increase in quantum. It also granted in part the appeal filed by the Defendant, merely so as to declare that there was lack of evidence of contamination by mercury.