Friday, July 11, 2003

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    Drilling and Killing: As President Bush Meets with the CEO of Chevron Texaco in Nigeria, a Look at Chevron's Role in the Killing of Two Nigerian Villagers

    President Bush arrives in Nigeria today.

    As he wraps up his five-day Africa tour, he is accompanied by a large entourage of corporate executives. Front and center are the oil executives. Bush is set to meet with Chevron Texaco CEO and chairman Dave O’Reilly. Other transnational corporations attending include Exxon-Mobil and Shell Petroleum.

    Bush is joined by his National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice. Rice is a former board member of Chevron. The company named an oil tanker after her, the Condoleezza Rice.

    Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer, cranking out more than 2 million barrels a day. Nearly 750,000 barrels of Nigeria’s oil go to the United States every day. That is 8 percent of total U.S. crude oil imports.

    A former U.S. diplomat in Africa, Vincent Farley told Cox News Service: “If the U.S. intervention in Iraq does not bring peace in the Middle East, then the U.S. may have to look to other sources of oil.” He said, “And Africa is at the top of the list.”

    Today, we spend the hour with the Democracy Now! documentary “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship.”

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