Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fill the vacuum created by the partial withdrawal of the Mafia from the narcotics racket. Its chief contact in the U.S. became Florida Gang Boss Santo Trafficante Jr., who traveled to Saigon and Hong Kong to work out narcotics deals with the Corsicans and later turned up in Ecuador to check out a cocaine network in which he had been offered a partnership. The Union Corse also supplied and financed the new gangs of South Americans, Puerto Ricans and blacks, who moved into the vacant territories. All members of the milieu were instructed to avoid disturbing those Mafiosi who still...
...brought about by U.S. withdrawal, or try to invade the American market. Then there is the worrisome fact that to be cultivated profitably, the opium poppy needs only a warm climate and cheap labor. Poppy plantings have recently been spotted in Costa Rica and high in the Andes in Ecuador and Peru...
...urging, by the OAS in 1964. The other was Jamaica, which did not join the OAS until 1969. But the OAS policy of isolation has been broken not only by Peru but also by Chile, where the Marxist government re-established relations with Havana in November 1970. Panama and Ecuador are expected to follow before very long...
...wind that suggest that the Administration is not so intransigent in its attitude toward Cuba as it used to be. Washington has long been concerned about the increasingly permanent Soviet presence in Cuba. U.S. diplomats have been discussing the possibility of sending a respected Latin American statesman-Ecuador's Galo Plaza, Secretary-General of the OAS, is an eager candidate-to Havana to open a dialogue. An opening of sorts occurred in June, when three American scientists traveled-with Administration approval-to the Cuban capital for an eleven-nation conference on oceanography. The scientists had applied...
...army was apparently afraid that the winner of the election-and the next President-would be the radical, Syrian-born former mayor of Guayaquil, Assad Bucaram. But the generals may also have been lured by the spoils of office. Ecuador may eventually become Latin America's second largest oil producer (after Venezuela). The Trans-Andean pipeline goes into operation next June. President Velasco had already received $11 million from Texaco-Gulf in advance royalties. He had also signed a secret decree giving the military half the total oil royalties. Now, for the time being at least, the army will...