'Crude' Dives into the Toxic Battle Between Big Oil and Dying Natives in Ecuador

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L.A. Weekly | September 18, 2009
Joe Berlinger's remarkable documentary recounts an infuriating litany of South American exploitation, backroom glad-handing and bureaucratic dead ends that has, among other collateral damages, created a Rhode Island-sized "death zone" of toxic pollution in the middle of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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