ABSTRACT
In May 2003, a delegation of indigenous leaders from the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon visited Washington, D.C., to tell people about the environmental and social toll of oil extraction by U.S.-based corporations on their lands. Following meetings in Washington, the delegation went to Houston, Texas, to meet with Burlington Resources, a company that holds two oil development concessions covering 400,000 hectares of their ancestral territory. 1
