Anti-Drug Air Base Pact To Be Ended

Team Infidel

Forum Spin Doctor
Washington Times
October 30, 2007
Pg. 13

QUITO, ECUADOR — The Ecuadorean government on Friday insisted on ending a cooperation agreement with the United States that allows the U.S. military to use a coastal air force base for anti-drug operations in the Andes.
"Our decision to put an end to the use of the base in Manta in 2009 is inalterable and irreversible," Galo Mora, a representative of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, told participants at a solidarity forum with Cuba.
The 10-year agreement, signed by the United States and Ecuador in 1999, allows Washington to deploy up to 475 military personnel in Manta in support of counternarcotics operations.
 
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