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...Ecuador the CIA's first goal was to force the Ecuadorean government to end its recognition of Cuba and to deport all Cuban nationals. The CIA also wanted the Ecuadorean government to end relations with all other communist countries and to declare all their citizens and representatives to be persona non grata. Finally the CIA was determined to undermine the indigenous Ecuadorean Left, concentrated in the labor unions and universities...
Ostensibly to protect its deep-sea fishery from the depredations of foreign commercial fleets, Ecuador claims that its territorial waters extend 200 miles offshore-something of a stretch beyond the usual twelve-mile limit. Yanqni tuna fishermen have "intruded" regularly over the years, sometimes paying the Ecuadoreans a license fee, sometimes not. Without a license, the American boats run the risk of seizure by the Ecuadorean navy. (More than half of Ecuador's 21 ships, as it happens, were supplied by the U.S.) Lately the Ecuadoreans have been getting more aggressive: since Jan. 11 they have seized...
...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...