US oil corporation Chevron is one of the largest companies of the field. It carries out oil exploitation activities all over the world. Besides the fact that it is one of the world’s largest corporations, the company’s name is usually associated with a record of environmental and human rights violations and its complicity with several totalitarian regimes.
For example, in Africa, Chevron appears as one of the leading companies of the hydrocarbons industry in Equatorial Guinea, a country known for having an authoritarian regime, where human rights organization Amnesty International has documented tens of cases of prisoners of conscience.
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