Amazon Rainforest Ecuador

The significance behind the film title has much meaning due to the fact Chevrons profits were obtained through the exploitation of many indigenous groups living in Ecuador during a 28-year span the company was drilling in the 1960’s. The real cost of oil drilling is contaminated drinking water, high rights of diseases such as cancer, congenital disabilities, leukemia, and families losing their loved ones. This cost is best shown with the documentaries interview with San Carlos resident Maria Garofalo, and the negative impact chevrons had on her life. Maria and her family lived within 10 miles from the nearest oil production station which contaminated all the water and air they breathed in their area. This resulted in both herself and her two daughters be diagnosed with cancer. Unable to afford her daughter's cancer treatments she tries to earn money by purchasing chickens, but animals including her died as a result of the water being contaminated. Maria is not the only going through this as many other indigenous people interviewed explained similar disasters such as the death of family members and their livestock dying.
Directed by Joe Berlinger.2009.Amazon Rainforest Ecuador: Entendre Films,2009.DVD

According to Phillip Berryman, the current president of Ecuador Rafael Correra has placed “extractive industries central to their developmental strategy” during his tenure as president
(Berryman 2016, 78). This provides little hope for the people since the current leader seems to be unsympathetic to environmental causes. Berryman notes Correras plans will effect 450,000 acres of land inhabited by the Shuar people (Berryman 2016,78). Like other right-leaning leaders, Correra says the royalties from these projects will benefit the Ecuadorian people/economy, but he seems to forget about the indigenous Ecuadorian people that will be used as ends to his