Crude: A Memoir - Hardcover

A gripping, richly illustrated recounting ofthe battle indigenous Ecuadorians and their allies waged against Texaco/Chevronover the energy company's destruction of portions of the Amazon. As a teenager, Pablo Fajardo worked in the Amazonian oil fields, where he witnessed theconsequences of Texaco/Chevron's indifference to the environment and to theinhabitants of the Amazon. Fajardo mobilized with his peers to seek reparationsand in time became the lead counsel for UDAPT (Union of People Affected byTexaco), a group of more than thirty thousand small farmers and indigenouspeople from the northern Ecuadorian Amazon who continue to fight for reparationsand remediation to this day.