Ecuador has a gross domestic product of around $61 billion in 2010. Ecuador is simply dwarfed by the size of multinational companies like Chevron whose total revenues in 2010 were $200 billion. Between 1972 and 1992 Texaco (now part of Chevron) was active in the small South American republic of Ecuador. (more…)
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