Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Nigeria by 60,000 bbl. a day, and industry experts say that Ashland Oil has indefinitely suspended purchases of some 90,000 bbl. a day of crude from Mexico, along with another 17,000 bbl. daily from the African country of Cameroon. In the past two weeks, Mexico, Ecuador and Egypt have cut their crude-oil prices between...
...French press correspondent in Quito. Ecuador yesterday confirmed reports that the El Salvadoran military killed 1500 El Salvadoran for trying to flee into Honduras at the border town of Morazon. The correspondent cited a Latin American human rights group as his source...
Chapin--who left Harvard with a magna cum laude degree in history and with Phi Beta Kappa honors--said he became interested in Latin American affairs and fluent in Spanish as a child, while living in Ecuador with his father, also a career foreign service officer...
...more likely to be democratic than, say, Cuba or China. At present, the possibility of, say, Cuba or Poland becoming free and democratic is certainly absurd; yet in the past few years three Latin American countries, and only one with the prompting of President Carter--the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Peru--have all peacefully discarded their military regimes...
...bill of particulars, Powell ticked off nine countries ("just so we don't miss a continent") in which Reagan has suggested military involvement. He included Reagan's call that Cuba be blockaded in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, that a destroyer should be sent to Ecuador in response to the seizure of American tuna boats and that American troops should be sent to Lebanon during its civil...