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 veggie
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 Ecuador president tells U.S. to move anti-drug surveillance flights to Colombia
#7285618 - 08/11/07 09:00 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Ecuador president tells U.S. to move anti-drug surveillance flights to Colombia
August 11, 2007 - Associated Press
QUITO, Ecuador – President Rafael Correa said Saturday that the U.S. should move its anti-drug surveillance flights to Colombia after its lease runs out on an Ecuadorean air base in 2009.
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.
“Put the base in Colombia,” said Correa, a leftist and close ally of Venezuelan leader and Washington foe Hugo Chavez. “Colombia produces drugs, Ecuador doesn't.”
Ecuador produces virtually no coca, the key ingredient in cocaine, but is often used as a transit country for drugs traveling from neighboring Colombia and Peru to the United States via the Pacific Ocean.
Authorities have discovered several drug labs in the country in the past year, including one in February near the Colombian border that was capable of producing 20 tons of cocaine a month.
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