![]() ![]() 12, 1999 despite opposition from social movements which considered the presence of foreign military a threat to the country’s sovereignty. The agreement between Ecuador and the United States, dubbed the Ortiz Agreement after then-Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Benjamin Ortiz, who signed the agreement, came into force on Nov. ![]() The real aim, however, was to install U.S. Manta served as a base for Plan Colombia, an agreement signed between Colombia and the United States in 1998 by Colombian President Andres Pastrana as a program to boost economic alternatives to the drug trade. Air Force to use and access the runway and part of the Manta military base-for free-on the premise of fighting drug trafficking in South America. Manta Military Base (or Eloy Alfaro Military Base) was inaugurated by the Ecuadorean Air Force on October 28, 1978, in an area next to the international airport in the city of Manta.īetween 19, an intergovernmental agreement allowed the U.S. forces of violating human rights.Ĩ Ways Ecuador Revolutionized Foreign Policy Models troops was also criticized by political and social organizations which accused the U.S. troops from the Manta military base after the 10-year agreement signed in 1999 by then-President Jamil Mahuad expired and the new constitution prohibiting the presence of foreign troops kicked in. In July 2009, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa ordered the withdrawal of U.S. The CIA also funded NGOs and opposition parties against governments considered "hostile" to U.S. Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina and Cuba stopped sending military to this school. ![]() The United States has more than 70 military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean, and provides training at the School of the Americas (now called the Institute for Security and Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere), which was attended by an average of 1,500 soldiers from the region every year. These included manipulating public opinion, infiltrating political parties and organizations, conducting terrorist attacks which were falsely attributed to leftist movements, bribery, and espionage correspondence, among other activities. ![]() special services in Latin America destabilized governments which represented a danger to the "interests" of Washington. The former spy accounts in detail the methods through which the U.S. The list of CIA collaborators and informants in Ecuador in those years includes 200 senior officials, including Senator Reinaldo Varea Donoso who was paid US$800 a month by the agency. "In both cases, the CIA centered their campaign on anti-communism, wrapped in an incredible tangle of lies, forgery, terrorism, bloodshed, buying and selling of consciences," the book explains.Įcuador Leaves US-Backed Military Organization The objectives of the CIA were to break down relations between Cuba and Ecuador and overthrow Ecuadorean President Carlos Arosemena. In his book "The CIA against Latin America," authors Jaime Galarza and Francisco Herrera show us testimony from Philip Agee on how the agency intervened and interfered in the region.ĬIA Agent-Turned-Whistleblower Philip Agee The advance of progressive political organizations in the Americas accelerated CIA intervention via coup conspiracies, media campaigns, assassination plots, extrajudicial executions, mass persecution, torture and mass disappearances. For its part, Washington led an anti-communist movement orchestrating coups in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. These were supported by the Soviet Union for its own geopolitical reasons, but Cuba also played a supportive role. In 1959, the Cuban Revolution triumphed and leftist movements sprung up across the region. A year later in 1954, the CIA organized the overthrow of the nationalist government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, after he expropriated estates of the United Fruit company. In 1953, the CIA intervened in the overthrow of the prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, who had nationalized foreign oil companies. US Tried to Impose Nazi Leader on Ukraine in WWII: CIA Leak Truman, who approved the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, signed a decree to create the Central Intelligence Agency for the purposes of espionage and political interventionism worldwide. The actions of the CIA in Ecuador between 1960-1963 were outlined in “Inside the Company,” a book first published in 1975 by former CIA agent in Ecuador, Philip Agee. The goal was to prevent the rise of the left in the region at any cost. The CIA actions were aimed at achieving the continental blockade against Cuba in the 1960s after the triumph of the Cuban revolution. intelligence agency itself, released by WikiLeaks, show how the CIA intervened in the region under the guise of diplomacy. ![]()
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