Word: ecuadorean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ECUADOR Working under the Ecuadorean Institute of Electrification, Volunteers will help promote and standardize the electrification of the country and help train nationals in construction, operation and maintenance of systems throughout the country. Engineers will design, supervise and help administrate the systems...
...furies of the southern seas, few are as furious as a U.S. tuna-boat skipper forced to pay up to $8,000 to the government of Ecuador for a one-shot license to drop his nets anywhere within 200 miles of the Ecuadorean coast. Last year, says August Felando, general manager of the American Tuna Boat Association, West Coast skippers were hooked for a cool $500,000 for the privilege of fishing in the 66,000 sq. mi. of blue Pacific Ocean claimed by Ecuador. "The association felt that things were getting worse, with fines and harassments from the Ecuadorean...
According to the U.S. fishermen, two of their boats operating 14 miles from the coast were stopped by an Ecuadorean patrol boat and ordered to put into the port of Manta for licenses. When they refused, the other 19 surrounded the patrol boat. The Ecuadoreans sent an emergency call for a destroyer; shots were fired across two tuna boats' bows, and the Yankee skippers agreed to go along under force of arms. The way Ecuador's government tells it, the U.S. tuna men were fishing within three miles of the coast. No shots were fired, and the Yankee...