Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador in South America (for example Plan Colombia). In 2013 CONAIE became more involved in discussions with other indigenous organizations involving land rights and environmental sustainability due to deals made by the government with large multinational oil companies. These deals primarily concern the Amazon basin, and would take over much of the indigenous land that is currently inhabited. There has been much debate for many years between the governments, the indigenous peoples, and the oil companies. Chevron (formerly Texaco) is a major oil company which has had a presence in Ecuador; recently Chevron has come into many Ecuadorian headlines regarding drilling
Alicia Cawiya the Ecuadorian Amazon region between 1964 and 1992. During this period, Texaco drilled 339 wells in 15 petroleum fields and 627 toxic wastewater pits were abandoned, as well as other elements of the oil infrastructure. It is now known that obsolete and highly polluting technologies were used as a way to reduce economic expenses. After the company left the country, the government started legal actions to be compensated by the company, which tried to avoid the sentence of paying a fee of 19.000 million dollars. This conflict lasted for more than twenty years and in June 2017 the United States