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“On a chaotic street in this sweltering jungle town, Emergildo Criollo spent several days near the entrance to a courthouse that looks more like a run-down mall. He was, he says, vigilando: watching. ‘We waited to know the moment he arrived,’ says the middle-aged indigenous man who was raised in this oil-rich Amazonian rain forest near Ecuador’s northern border with Colombia. The man Mr. Criollo and his friends were waiting for is Richard Cabrera, a court-appointed expert who last week poured fuel on an epic environmental lawsuit filed by Ecuadorean indigenous groups against US-based Chevron-Texaco.” (04/09/08)