Ecuador bus crash kills 5 British tourists Apr 14, 2008
Britain's acting ambassador traveled to Manta to ensure proper medical care, the Foreign Office said in a statement. British Embassy Vice Consul Veronica Ruiz said preparations were underway to move the injured to Quito for treatment. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Ecuador bus crash Britons flown to capital city Apr 14, 2008
The group arrived in the Ecuadorean capital on a scheduled 40 minute flight from the coastal city of Manta to be met by a trio of ambulances and a minibus waiting beside the runway ... While being treated for minor injuries at a clinic in Manta, the bus survivors were met there by the acting British ambassador ... Rescue workers had to cut their bodies from the wreckage, local media reports said, and the survivors were taken to the nearby town of Manta, where the British Ambassador is expected... (Telegraph.co.uk)
Ecuador Assembly President Seeks Early Close of U.S.'s Manta Military Base Apr 4, 2008
He spoke in a press conference at the assembly in Montecristi near Manta ... The U.S. anti-narcotics operation based in the port of Manta is the sole foreign base in the South American country. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Ecuador plans foreign bases ban Apr 3, 2008
The US has its only South American base in the town of Manta but its 10-year lease is up for renewal next year ... The air base at Manta has great strategic value for the US military ... American officials say surveillance flights from Manta have led to more than half the illegal drug seizures in the region. (BBC News -- Americas)
Ecuador military base ban approved Apr 3, 2008
Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, whose party controls the assembly, had previously said he would not renew the agreement allowing US forces to operate from the city of Manta. At present the US lease on the Pacific coast base expires in 2009. (Aljazeera.Net)
Chavez sends troops toward Colombia Mar 3, 2008
The Jan. 18 document also says that Correa will cancel next year permission for U.S. surveillance planes to use a base at Manta, Ecuador, something he has already announced. Fifteen rebels found deadCorrea said the rebels were "bombed and massacred as they slept, using precision technology." He said Colombia violated Ecuador's airspace when it bombed the rebel camp, which the Colombian military said was located 1. (MSNBC -- Race)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Howard: Ecuador to Evict U.S. Dec 14, 2007
When the U.S. Air Force Southern Command's 10-year usage rights for Ecuador's Manta air base expire in 2009, it can expect to be evicted in favor of China ... The Manta base is not geopolitically important for U.S. national security, but the Southern Command (South Com) currently uses it to in the "source zone" of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia ... From March 5 to 9, 2007, more than 400 activists gathered in Manta for the first International Conference for the. (Zmag.org)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Powerful Earthquake Rocks Peru-Ecuador Border Nov 16, 2007
7 quake was felt strongly in the Ecuadorean cities of Guayaquil and Manta. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor struck at 10:12 p.m. and was centered about 150 miles south of Guayaquil. (CBS2.com, CA)
Klein: Latin America Shock Resistance Nov 15, 2007
The base is in Manta, Ecuador, and Rafael Correa, the countrys leftist president, has pronounced that he will renew the lease on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miamian Ecuadorean base ... Since an Ecuadorean military outpost in South Beach is a long shot, it is very likely that the Manta base, which serves as a staging area for the war on drugs, will soon shut down. (Zmag.org)
Burbach: Ecuadors Popular Revolt Oct 8, 2007
Minister of Foreign Relations Mara Fernanda Espinosa, in a meeting with the Foreign Press Association in Quito, declared that Ecuador intends to close the U.S. military base located at Manta, the largest of its kind on South Americas Pacific coast ... Manta was ostensibly established in 1999 to help monitor narco-trafficking over the ocean and in the nearby Amazon basin ... Manta is also used as a port for U.S. naval operations in the Pacific Ocean. (Zmag.org)
Poll: Socialists winning in Ecuador Oct 1, 2007
Ecuador is considered an ally in U.S.-funded efforts to stem narcotics trafficking, allowing regional interdiction flights from its Manta air base. Correa has vowed to end the U.S. military's lease on the facility. (AZCentral -- News)
Santos gole al Amrica y se afirm en la punta Sep 11, 2007
La sexta victoria del torneo para los pupilos de Daniel Travieso Guzmn tuvo dedicatoria especial al guardameta Oswaldo Snchez, recin operado del hombro izquierdo, pues el cuadro local sali con una manta con la leyenda "Oswaldo, ste (juego) va por ti" y tambin por la celebracin del aniversario 100 de esta ciudad. Poco extraaron al tres veces mundialista en el campo, porque la escuadra americanista gener escasas oportunidades de gol y en la ms cercana al 43, en un cabezazo del uruguayo... (ESPN -- Deportes)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Ecuador Flights Aug 22, 2007
TAME - TAME has a long list of flights to domestic destinations such as Coca, Cuenca, Esmeraldas, Lago Agrio, Loja, Macas, Machala, Manta, the (including San Crist;bal) and to Havana and Panama City ... Aerogal flies to both San Crist;bal and Santa Cruz/Baltra, as well as to Manta, Medellin, Bogota, Cuenca ... Icaro - Cheap flights from Guayaquil to Cali, Coca, Cuenca, Esmeraldas, and Manta. (Suite101.com)
DoD Press Briefing with Dr. Ward, Capt. Boynton, Mr. Leitch on USNS Comforts Four-Month, 12-Country Humanitarian Mission To South America, Central America and the Caribbean from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington Va. Aug 18, 2007
Midway through -- or midway into their 120-day, 12-country deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America, USNS Comfort medical provides have conducted more than 170,000 consultations seeing patients in Belize, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Peru, and just this week arrived in their seventh port of service, Manta, Ecuador. While in Ecuador, members of the United States Navy, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard as well as U.S. Public Health Service, Canadian forces and... (DOD DefenseLINK -- News)
Ecuador Eyes U.S. Drug Surveillance Move Aug 12, 2007
Correa, who took office in January, has repeatedly said he will not extend the agreement letting the U.S. military use the Manta base for the air operations. In his weekly radio address he denied that the decision would result in increased drug trafficking. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Fuentes: Indigenous & Correa Aug 8, 2007
For Chancoso, the indigenous movement today continues to identify with "a political agenda that is: No to Plan Colombia, no to the FTAs, no more military base in Manta, no to the payment of the external debt.". "We support this agenda of change against the neoliberal model. With Correa winning government, our proposals continue to remain within this agenda. Our struggle was for the convocation of the Constituent Assembly. So we identified with the call for a consultation on the Constituent... (Zmag.org)
Ecuador Orders U.S. Activist Expelled Aug 5, 2007
Fifteen people were detained in Tuesday's raid in the Pacific port of Manta, according to police. But a prosecutor later ordered them released and the fins returned to the fishermen. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Hallinan: Afghanistan & Guns Jul 20, 2007
The Working Group found that mercenaries were recruited from throughout Latin America and then flown to Ecuador to train at the huge U.S. base at Manta ... Jeffrey Shipper, who worked at Manta for DynCorp, told the Los Angeles Times that a major reason for using Latin American mercenaries was that, 'The State Department is very interested in saving money on security now. (Zmag.org)
Colombia Offers U.S. Airbase to Fight War on Drugs, Defense Official Says Jul 12, 2007
A US airplane at the Manta airfield ... Colombia said it would accommodate U.S. planes and troops now based at Ecuador's Eloy Alfaro airfield in the northern city of Manta, the official said ... Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, who says the base compromises his country's sovereignty, has pledged not to renew a 10-year lease that allows 500 U.S. troops and eight aircraft at Manta. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
solo: Americanism vs. ALBA Jul 12, 2007
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has already announced that the lease on the US military base at Manta will not be renewed when it expires in 2009. Very likely for that reason the US is building up its military presence in Colombia where it now has three bases at Tres Esquinas and Florencia in the Caquet department and at Villavicencio in the department of Meta. (Zmag.org)
Unfair Treatment of Colombia by U.S. Democrats Jun 26, 2007
Part of the 9 submarine flottilla Chavez is purchasing from Russia may well be destined to be based at Manta upon the departure of U.S. personnel in 2009, giving Chavez an access to the pacific coast of Colombia and other Latin American countries, and he now has bases in Bolivia. The media barrage against Colombia is being done in order to develop pretexts for future military actions against Colombia. (Newsmax)
Energy Security: Bridging The (Energy) Gulf Jun 24, 2007
Sandwiched between Colombia and Peru, Ecuador has only provided a tiny "forward operating base" at the port of Manta, with 300 U.S. troops conducting aerial surveillance to keep Colombia's FARC Marxist narcoterrorists from bringing war to Ecuador as they have to their own country. Instead of helping on that front, Ecuador now vows to shut down the Manta base and let the skies there go unpatrolled ... Espinosa claims Manta has nothing to do with Ecuador's relative peace from the drug lords. (Investors Business Daily)
First Manta Ray Born in Captivity - Japan Aquarium Jun 19, 2007
Planet Ark : First Manta Ray Born in Captivity - Japan Aquarium ... First Manta Ray Born in Captivity - Japan Aquarium ... TOKYO - A Japanese aquarium is celebrating a special new arrival this week - a giant manta ray keepers say is the world's first ever born in captivity. (Planet Ark, United States)
Ecuador Seeks Two-Year Extension of U.S. Trade Preferences, Espinosa Says Jun 8, 2007
The Eloy Alfaro airfield, in the northern city of Manta, is used by U.S. radar planes to track illegal drug shipments across the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. The Ecuadorean people don't want foreign troops on their territory,'' Espinosa said. (Bloomberg)
China Undermines U.S. in Latin America Jun 5, 2007
As part of this trend, Pacific coast ports such as Valparaiso and Iquique in Chile, as well as Callao, Tacna and Ilo in Peru, and Manta in Ecuador, will take on new significance in regional logistics flows ... It also includes the concession granted to Hutchison Whampoa to run the Ecuadorian port of Manta, where an important U.S. Forward Operating Location (FOL) is located. (Newsmax)
Ecuador's President Meets U.S. Officials May 10, 2007
Correa, a U.S.-trained economist, has said that he will not extend a deal letting the U.S. military use Ecuador's Manta air base for drug surveillance flights when it expires in 2009. He has also vowed not to sign a free trade agreement with the United States as neighboring Colombia and Peru have done, and said he would not renew a bilateral investment protection agreement with the U.S. that expires on Friday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
U.S. official to discuss trade, energy on trip to Ecuador May 8, 2007
Correa has taken several jabs at Washington since he was inaugurated in January, telling the U.S. military that it will have to leave the Manta air force base when an agreement to use it expires in 2009. The base is used by U.S. aircraft on counter drug-trafficking patrols. (The Miami Herald)
Going volcanicWhy changes in Ecuador have caused a political explosion Apr 30, 2007
He has told the World Bank representative he can get out of Quito and he has warned the United States that he will not renew the lease on their military base in the western city of Manta. Mr Correa also sacked 57 congressmen and women he accused of failing to do their jobs properly. (BBC News)
Mychalejko : Lat. Am. Mercenaries Apr 27, 2007
The report expressed concern that private security companies were using the U.S. military base in Manta to recruit employees for foreign operations (Iraq and Afghanistan) and to conduct aerial spraying and other counter-narcotics operations under "Plan Colombia." ... "A transnational private security company was performing counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics tasks from the military base in Manta," said the U.N.'s Gomez del Prado, adding that these functions should be carried out exclusively... (Zmag.org)
Ecuador: New hopes and challenges Apr 17, 2007
Mr Correa talks about restructuring Ecuador's foreign debt - he has said he will close the US military base in the western city of Manta when the lease expires in a couple of years and potential investors are nervous about the instability. But the convincing victory in the referendum means that Mr Correa has now reinforced his mandate to execute fundamental changes. (BBC News)
Ecuador appears likely to rewrite constitution Apr 16, 2007
But he has also pushed to maintain strong economic ties with the United States while vociferously opposing renewal of an agreement that allows the United States to conduct drug surveillance flights from a base in the coastal city of Manta. And in a spat with President lvaro Uribe of Colombia, the Bush administration's closest ally in South America, Correa has been critical of Colombia's policy of fumigating coca crops near its border with Ecuador, which is carried out with aid from the United... (International Herald Tribune)
Lendman: Attack on Journalism Apr 12, 2007
He won't need it to follow through on his promise to close the major US military base at Manta when the ten year lease authorizing it expires in 2009. O'Grady didn't mention it, but it's got the Pentagon concerned as it's the largest US base on South America's Pacific coast, expensive to build, and one they want to hold onto but likely won't. (Zmag.org)
Hallward: Interviews Guy Philippe Mar 28, 2007
PH: As far as I know the US currently has at least 17 military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean, including the Eloy Alfaro Air Base in Manta, Ecuador (which the new government of Ecuador is now trying to close). But despite many reports to the contrary, you had no actual links with the US military from 1992-95. (Zmag.org)
Burbach: Ecuador Leftists Victorious Mar 26, 2007
" With the victory of Correa and the popular movement, a leftist axis of nations comprised of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador is consolidating in South America that is bent on carrying out profound social and economic changes at home while challenging the historic domination of the United States in the region. Correa has already announced he is shutting down the largest US military base on the South American coast at Manta, Ecuador. He is also moving forward with the expropriation of... (Zmag.org)
Off the coast, a quiet island shines Mar 25, 2007
Yet it has become a tourist destination because of its population of birds and sea lions, along with the dolphins, orcas, and manta rays at home in the surrounding waters. Agencies in the fishing village of Puerto L pez on the mainland run one-day excursions that combine trekking and snorkeling or diving. (Boston Globe)
Docena: Anti-Bases Movement Mar 20, 2007
On the perimeter fence of the Eloy Alfaro air base in Manta, Ecuador hangs a sign, Warning: Military Base ... But with the successful convening of a conference that launched the International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases (No Bases) in Quito and Manta, Ecuador from March 5 to 9, 2007, that goal has become a little closer to reality. (Zmag.org)
Lucas: World Without Bases Mar 18, 2007
Joint strategies for action will also be planned, and on Thursday, International Women's Day, a "Women for Peace" caravan will travel from Quito to the western port of Manta, where the largest U.S. base in South America is located ... On the closing day of the conference, cultural festivals will be held in Quito and Manta, and a world solidarity campaign calling for the definitive closure of the Manta base will be launched ... She said she hoped that the Ecuador meeting will consolidate world... (Zmag.org)
Burbach: Bush in Latin America Mar 12, 2007
Correa has rejected any free trade agreement with the United States and has announced he is closing down the US base on South America's Pacific Coast located at Manta ... Upwards of 475 military personal are continually rotated between Manta and the US Southern Command headquarters based in Florida. (Zmag.org)
Johnson on Democracy Now Mar 7, 2007
Ecuador announced that it would close the Manta Air Base, the military base there. What about the response, the resistance to this web of bases around the world. (Zmag.org)
U.S. Anti-Drug Base Pressured to Close by Ecuador, International Protests Mar 6, 2007
The International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, taking place this week in Quito, is focused on ending the U.S. presence at Ecuador's Manta Airfield, where a 1999 accord allows up to 475 U.S. troops to be stationed as part of U.S.-backed efforts to fight drug trafficking ... There's strong opposition in Ecuadorean society to the U.S. presence at Manta,'' Presidential spokesman Javier Rueda said in an e-mailed statement ... When the current agreement at Manta expires,... (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Latin America & Caribbean Briefs Mar 3, 2007
Guadalupe Larriva was killed along with her 17-year-old daughter and five military officers Jan. 24 when two helicopters collided during maneuvers at a base near Manta in southern Ecuador. BRAZIL. (The Miami Herald)
Lendman: Review of Nemesis Mar 2, 2007
Ecuador under its new president, Raphael Correa, already served notice his country won't renew the US base lease in Manta when it expires in 2009 unless Washington allows his country comparable basing rights in Miami that's impossible. Other countries may follow suit just like the East Europeans kicked out the Soviets after their nations broke away in 1991. (Zmag.org)
Lendman: Ecuador's President Feb 21, 2007
Correa intends a further challenge to US hegemony by following through on another campaign promise to close the major US military base at Manta when the 10 year treaty authorizing it expires in 2009. Doing it won't make Pentagon top brass happy as it's their largest base on South America's Pacific coast and one costing many millions to build. (Zmag.org)
Sabotage ruled out in Ecuador helicopter crash Feb 17, 2007
Barreiro said that the commission was now examining the trajectory of the aircraft from their takeoffs at the Montecristi Polygon to the Eloy Alfaro Airport in the coastal city of Manta. Barreiro did not say which helicopter was responsible for the collision, however. (Xinhuanet, China)
Triste empate de Pachuca Feb 11, 2007
Como en todos los partidos de esta cuarta fecha, los jugadores salieron acompaados por nios con una manta con un mensaje donde pidieron a los aficionados que el "El Juego Limpio tambin en las tribunas", como parte de una campaa para erradicar la violencia de las gradas, donde la medida de impedir el ingreso a las porras de los visitantes no funcion. Los monarcas de la Copa Sudamericana se lanzaron en busca de un gol rpido en el juego ante pocos aficionados que llegaron para el arranque del... (ESPN -- Deportes)
China's Overseas Port Spending Spree Feb 9, 2007
A few months ago, the government of Ecuador decided to change its laws and allow a Hong Kong-based company to bid for the port of Manta, one of the most important in the region ... According to the deal - the details of which were thrashed out behind closed doors - Hutchison will take over management of Manta on February 1 and retain control for some 30 years ... What's more, as the deal in Ecuador's Manta port shows, the terms can often be favorable enough that countries don't hesitate to... (BusinessWeek)
U.S. base in Ecuador in danger Feb 8, 2007
MANTA, Ecuador (AP) -- The U.S. military's lone outpost in South America is a modest affair -- 220 Americans share space with a local air force wing and an international airport ... No matter that the planes intentionally avoid Ecuadorean airspace after takeoff, and that U.S. operations at Manta contribute $7 million a year to the local economy ... Although U.S. officials deny that Manta's planes spy on leftist rebels in Colombia, they do intercept drug flights and eavesdrop on radio... (CNN -- World)
Ecuador assails US antidrug funding cuts Feb 7, 2007
Last year Evo Morales, a former coca-growers leader, became president of Bolivia and this year Rafael Correa took office as president of Ecuador, pledging to shut the US military base at Manta, the only one of its kind in South America and an important staging post for interception efforts. Mr Correas government has reacted angrily to Colombias aerial spraying on its border with Ecuador. (FT.com -- Markets)
Ecuador Leader Dismisses Army Commander Feb 3, 2007
Larriva, 50, and her 17-year-old daughter, Claudia Avila, and five military officers were killed Jan. 24 when two helicopters collided during maneuvers at a base near Manta in southern Ecuador. Correa fired Machado for "administrative failures, security failures, proceedings before the accident," Patino said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Ecuador Names Temporary Defense Chief Jan 29, 2007
Larriva, 50, the country's first female defense minister, and her 17-year-old daughter, Claudia Avila, were killed when two helicopters collided last week during maneuvers to mark the 53rd anniversary of army aviation in Ecuador at a base near Manta. A colonel, three captains and a lieutenant also died in the crash. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Ecuador to name new defense minister Jan 27, 2007
Larriva, Ecuador's first female defense minister, died Wednesday in a collision of two helicopters that also killed her daughter and five members of the military in the port city of Manta ... Larriva, the country's first female defense minister, and her 17-year-old daughter Claudia Avila were killed when two helicopters collided Wednesday during maneuvers to mark the 53rd anniversary of army aviation in Ecuador at a base near Manta. (Bakersfield Californian -- World)
Ecuador Probes Official's Death in Crash Jan 26, 2007
"It appears to have been an unfortunate accident but so that there is no doubt" the government has formed a special commission to oversee the investigation, President Rafael Correa told reporters in the port city of Manta ... Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuador's first female defense minister, died in the collision of two helicopters that also killed her daughter and five members of the military near Manta ... Defense Minister Guadalupe Larriva, 50, and her 17-year-old daughter Claudia Avila were killed... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Defence minister dies in helicopter collision Jan 26, 2007
The two helicopters were performing a night flight test at a military base in Manta, south-east of Quito, when their blades collided and the helicopters fell to the ground, killing Guadalupe Larriva, 50, her daughter, Claudia Avila, 17, and five others, the interior secretary, Gustavo Larrea, said. Ms Larriva was appointed when the president, Rafael Correa, took office on January 15. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
* Ecuador defense minister killed in chopper accident Jan 26, 2007
Official reports said that the crash came as the two helicopters -- one of them carrying Larriva, 50, and her 17-year-old daughter -- were conducting a night military exercise near the Manta air base ... Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, who expressed sorrow over the accident, traveled to the accident scene and confirmed the deaths near the air base at the port city of Manta, 275km southwest of Quito ... The Manta fire chief said that the rescue team so far had recovered the bodies of two men... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Thursday promised an international investigation into the helicopter crash that killed the country's first woman defense minister. Jan 26, 2007
Aircraft wreckage can be seen near a crash site in Manta, near the Eloy Alfaro airport Jan. 24, 2007 ... Larriva, 50, died on Wednesday night in a mid-air collision between two helicopters near a military base in Manta, some 260 km southeast of Quito. (Xinhuanet, China)
Pilot error seen in Ecuador official's air crash Jan 26, 2007
The accident occurred when another helicopter collided with the one in which Larriva and her daughter were riding, as her aircraft was returning to the Manta military base after an aerial tour of the coastal city, said a high-ranking Ecuadorean military officer who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly. "She was going along on the sortie to see how beautiful it was to fly at night," the officer said. (Los Angeles Times)
Ecuador minister dies in air crash Jan 25, 2007
Guadalupe Larriva, the Ecuadorean defence minister, has been killed in a helicopter collision in the Pacific port city of Manta. Monica Chuji, a government spokeswoman, said: "We can confirm the death of the minister, of one of her children and two pilots in the crash of two helicopters.". (Aljazeera.Net)
New Ecuador leader vows to assist poor Jan 16, 2007
And he will not extend U.S. use of the Manta air base on the Pacific coast for drug surveillance flights when a treaty expires in 2009. email alerts Enter your email address to get Breaking News newsletters. (AZCentral -- News)
Leftist Assuming Presidency in Ecuador Jan 15, 2007
And he has said he will not extend the U.S. military's use of the Manta air base on the Pacific coast for drug surveillance flights when a treaty expires in 2009. Correa's view that Ecuador's democratic system benefits parties, not people, attracted voters disgusted with the corruption and greed of the political elite. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Ecuador's new leader walks tightrope Jan 15, 2007
During his campaign, Correa attacked the Bush administration and said Ecuador would not sign a free-trade agreement with Washington or renew a pact allowing the U.S. military to use its Manta airfield for anti-drug missions. He also called for a ''renegotiation'' of the country's estimated $11 billion foreign debt as well as new legislation governing contracts with foreign oil companies, which produce more than half of the country's 510,000 barrels a day of oil. (The Miami Herald)
US Faces Eviction from Ecuadorian Base Jan 13, 2007
The Eloy Alfaro air base in Manta, Ecuador, is one of five primary air bases in the country ... US Southern Command (SouthCom), the branch of the US military that oversees operations in the Western Hemisphere, claims that installations at Manta play an important role in counter-drug operations ... As a Forward Operation Location (FOL), Manta is one of a number of air bases that replaced US facilities closed in Panama in 1999. (Ocnus.net)
Fernandes: Latin America Elections Jan 13, 2007
Correa pledged to break the lease of the Manta air base to the US for its anti-drug operations, and to increase the royalties extracted from foreign oil companies, similar to Morales actions in Bolivia. Like Chvez, Correa clearly differentiated himself from his rival candidate by outlining an alternative path of development to the neoliberal model. (Zmag.org)
