QUITO, Ecuador, Jan.

Oil Giant Reaches Into Bag of Dirty Tricks to Delay End of 17-year Litigation LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador, Nov.

Chevron Corp., Ecuadorean lawyers and environmentalists are engaged in an increasingly heated disagreement taking place on both U.S. and international stages.

By Andrew Gumbel Daryl Hannah, the actress turned environmentalist, is adding her voice to a campaign demanding redress for the inhabitants of Ecuador's Amazon region, which has been blighted by 30 years of oil exploration by Texaco.

Excerpt from report by Ecuadoran newspaper El Universo website on 25 August Nueva Loja, 25 August 2006: Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion will deliver a strong protest note to Colombia's Ambassador to Ecuador Carlos Holguin today [25 August] over a mortar which landed in Ecuadoran territory.