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Peter Foster, National Post · Jan. 6, 2012 | Last Updated: Jan. 6, 2012 3:10 AM ET I was in a hotel room in Mexico City when I watched the Tokyo fight in which Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson 22 years ago. The result seemed so bizarre that I wondered if I might have stumbled into a parallel universe. That is not an unusual feeling in Latin America. The decision by an Ecuador appeals court to uphold a US$18-billion judgment against petroleum giant Chevron was perhaps less surprising, but hardly less surreal. For the second time in a week, a corrupt, leftist South American government appeared to have gained a legal "victory" over Big Oil. The Chevron decision followed hard on the announcement that the government of Venezuela had to pay only a fraction (under US$1-billion) of Exxon Mobil's demands (US$7-billion) related to expropriation of the company's assets. Any case involving Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez is likely to be weird and wonderful. However, the Chevron case in Ecuador - which is ruled by another socialist mobster, Rafael Correa - looks like a plot by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, not just because it features incriminating outtakes from documentaries, payoffs to Ecuadorian court officials and evidence that court decisions were ghostwritten by the plaintiffs, but because it has recently been linked with an even more shameless shakedown: the "Yasuni ITT Initiative." The Chevron case goes back almost 20 years, to accusations that Texaco, which Chevron acquired in 2001, had failed to compensate adequately for its pollution of the Amazon while in partnership with state oil company PetroEcuador. This despite having paid for a cleanup that was certified by the Ecuadorian government. The case has - with the help of radical NGOs and U.S. lawyers, and the prospect of a bonanza payday - dragged on. A year ago, an Ecuadorian court ordered Chevron to pay US$8.6-billion, a sum that would double if it was not joined by an apology. No apology was forthcoming.

Pine Valley - A Mountain Oasis Nestled in a valley surrounded by rolling hills and towering peaks reaching 6,000 feet . . . rocky knolls amidst a river of trees that flow through the valley and greet the slopes of the adjacent mountains . . . an Eden amidst the dry, parched chaparral . . . an oasis dense with pines, manzanita and centuries old oak trees that once shaded only the Indians that inhabited the region: "El Valle de los Pinos", as this beautiful mountain valley was known before 1869, describes the abrupt change in scenery that only nature can explain. The surrounding desert terrain compliments the unique valley of over 1,200 acres where cedars and pines flourish amidst lush green meadows of sage and wild lilac. Early settlers of the region included the Cocopah and Coyote Indians and later the Machados family of Old Town who had come to California as pioneers in the late 18th century. For a number of years, Don Manuel Machado and his wife, Serafina Valdes operated a cattle grazing station and lived out of a Adobe house they had built. During the summer, thin and starved longhorn cattle were brought in to fatten up in the rich pastureland. In 1869, former Butterfield Stage coach driver, Captain William S. Emery and his wife settled in the area. Being Scotch-English pioneers from New England, the sound of Spanish words were unpleasant to their ears and, quickly, renamed "El Valle de los Pinos" to its literal translation of Pine Valley. Either way, the valley boasts one of t... Welcome to Birds-4-You Aviarys Specializing in hand fed Macaws, Congo African Greys, Conures, and other rare parrots. Welcome to Birds 4 You Aviary. We are a private parrot breeder specializing in hand raising and hand feeding parrots ranging from large Macaws, Congo African grays, and Amazons. To smaller parrots like Sun Conures, Indian Ringnecks , Quakers, and Parrotlets. We are located in Central Florida, just 10 miles north of the Tampa Bay Area in Trinity, FL. We a