📰 Andrés Olarte: A Whistleblower's Journey
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Our Executive Director Alexander von Bismarck and BBC Eye documentary filmmaker Owen Pinnell were there to discuss how the unprecedented level of evidence that Andrés compiled in the #IguanaPapers helped bring Ecopetrol’s alleged environmental and human rights violations to the world’s attention.
Graphic stating that 328,881 records in the Iguana Papers are marked “NO CUMPLIDO” (“Not fulfilled”), indicating widespread unmet obligations. A magnifying glass highlights rows in a spreadsheet showing repeated non-compliance entries linked to Ecopetrol’s environmental reporting duties in Colombia.
The #IguanaPapers reveal an internal Ecopetrol database of 328,881 records where environmental obligations are marked “NOT FULFILLED”. Not isolated errors, but a structural pattern of non-compliance.
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In March, we revealed how the state-owned and largest oil company in Colombia has been allegedly committing and covering up environmental and human rights violations, thanks to one brave whistleblower who shared the #IguanaPapers with the world: eia.org/report/crude...
2/ Andrés Olarte gana el #EllsbergWhistleblowerAward por su valentía al denunciar delitos medioambientales a gran escala.
Sus revelaciones, conocidas como #IguanaPapers, recopilan una enorme base de datos con más de 300.000 casos de delitos medioambientales y contra los derechos humanos.
2/ Andrés Olarte wins #EllsbergWhistleblowerAward for his courage exposing massive environmental crime.
His disclosures, known as #IguanaPapers, compile a massive database of over 300,000 non-compliance cases and environmental and human rights crimes
Colombian environmental defenders have been raising the alarm about Ecopetrol's practices for years, but the unprecedented level of evidence he compiled in the #IguanaPapers made it harder for the world to ignore.
Despite threats to his life for trying to raise the alarm on Ecopetrol's potentially illegal activities, he contacted us to share the #IguanaPapers - a database of key files including over 300,000 records of environmental infractions - with the world: eia.org/report/crude...
#IguanaPapers: BBC carried out a years-long investigation into a Colombian state-owned oil company after a whistleblower leaked 100s of internal emails & documents. On publication day, they made the documents available, @darcdataresearch.bsky.social made them searchable: www.bbc.com/news/article...
By sharing the database of evidence he gathered about Ecopetrol's alleged environmental and social impacts with the world - now known as the #IguanaPapers - Peña sparked our own two-year investigation into the Colombian oil industry's worst practices: eia.org/report/crude...
That changed when he saw firsthand the extent of Ecopetrol's attempts to conceal potentially illegal activities. Despite threats of retaliation, he chose to share a database of confidential internal files - now known as the #IguanaPapers - with the world: eia.org/the-iguana-p...
El denunciante y su familia enfrentaron amenazas de muerte tras su valiente intento de exponer las prácticas perjudiciales de Ecopetrol. Puedes revisar todos estos documentos en la base de datos de los #IguanaPapers: eia.org/los-iguana-p...
Los #IguanaPapers revelan las presuntas violaciones ambientales y de derechos humanos perpetradas por Ecopetrol, así como las formas en que la empresa vigiló en activistas, representantes sindicales y líderes comunitarios y religiosos que consideraban una amenaza para sus operaciones.
Nuestra nueva informe fue inspirada por un correo electrónico del denunciante Andrés Olarte Peña sobre Ecopetrol, una de las mayores empresas petroleras estatales del mundo. Los archivos que compartió – los #IguanaPapers – denunciar la violencia, la contaminación y otros impactos en toda Colombia.
The whistleblower and his family faced death threats after his courageous attempt to bring Ecopetrol's harmful practices to light. You can review all of those documents for yourself in the #IguanaPapers database: eia.org/the-iguana-p...
The #IguanaPapers expose the environmental and human rights violations allegedly perpetrated by Ecopetrol, along with the ways the company seemingly monitored and influenced the activists, union representatives, and community and religious leaders that they saw as a threat to their operations.
Our new investigation was inspired by an email from whistleblower Andrés Olarte Peña about Ecopetrol, one of the world's largest National Oil Companies. The files he shared - now dubbed the #IguanaPapers - document over 300,000 records of environmental non compliances across Colombia.
Los #IguanaPapers, compilada por el denunciante Andrés Olarte, "llevaba la cuenta de más de 800 casos de grandes daños medioambientales causados por las operaciones de la compañía, revelando cómo Ecopetrol habría ocultado 170 de estos casos."
El informe se centra en los #IguanaPapers, una base de datos que incluye en particular más de 300,000 registros de incumplimientos medioambientales, compilada por el denunciante Andres Olarte que alerta sobre actividades ilegales sistemáticas de Ecopetrol. eia.org/los-iguana-p...
The report centers around the #IguanaPapers, a database of key files including over 300,000 records of environmental infractions, compiled by whistleblower Andres Olarte, who tried to raise the alarm about apparent systematic illegal activity. eia.org/the-iguana-p...
