Chevron colludes with US judge to persecute attorney Steven Donziger

Pushback with Aaron Mate

English - May 26, 2021 20:37 - 22 minutes - 41.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 548 ratings
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Rather than pay up for a multi-billion dollar environmental damage ruling in Ecuador, the oil giant Chevron is persecuting one of the attorneys who defeated it in court. Steven Donziger has been subjected to nearly two years of house arrest in a Kafkaesque prosecution engineered by one of the world's top oil giants.

Guest: Steven Donziger, human rights attorney now facing persecution after helping to win a landmark legal judgment against Chevron in Ecuador.