Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador - Paperbackby Suzana Sawyer (Author) Ecuador is the third largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U. S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a