Word: ecuadorean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...embassies of communist countries. CIA agents also bombed Catholic churches and Conservative political part headquarters, and than blamed the bombings on "communist terrorists."' Using secret printing presses, forgeries and paid agents in the Ecuadorian press, the CIA spread constant anti-communist and anti-Cuban propaganda to the Ecuadorean public...
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...