Overseas Private Investment Corporation
(OPIC)

How did Enron persuade a U.S. agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corp., (OPIC) to support the pipeline enen though the agency was charged with protecting environmentally sensitive forests such as the Chiquitano? While enron was seeking billions in OPIC loans and insurance, the company lobbied congress to save OPIC from extintction. Politics...more information...

The negative social effects experienced by the community include increased crime, violence and prostitution, the loss land of the indigenous people, and the destruction of basic infrastructure

(The heavy machinery utilised for construction destroyed local roads connecting neighbouringcommunities...(More information)

Views from:
World Wildlife Fund vice president, Twig Johnson (link)

Information about effect on people of Bolivia.