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Live from kito, ecuador. hi steve. patti an, so far, this case has been portrayed in the media as a david versus goliath, a giant oil company creates a toxic mess, then leaves, but the real facts of the case might be more complicated. you can find oil everywhere in northern ecuador, across a chunk of the amazon jungle, the size of rhode island. in lakes, in rivers, in roads, under grass. even underneath houses. dig a few inches down there it is. there are globs of oil. wherever you go through this part of jungle, you see this book pools. this is the mud that came up with the production of the oil. you can see when you stick this down, it is about 10 feet deep right where i m standing, and it just doesn t go away. the pool of oil and mud here is from 1974. there is a $27 billion ....