Stainless Steel Rat
07-31-2008, 11:05 AM
From this article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/30/us.equador.base/index.html
The Ecuadorian government has told the Bush administration it will not renew a 10-year agreement letting U.S. troops conduct anti-drug operations from Manta Air Base, an Ecuadorian Air Force installation, military officials said.
Apparently it was a fairly busy post.
Since the start of U.S. operations there, about 60 percent of the drug interdictions in the eastern Pacific have involved the planes based out of Manta, including the capture of more than 200 metric tons of drugs in 2007, according to U.S. military officials.
Our other bases are in El Salvador and Curacao. Looks like we'll need a new location for patrolling the Pacific.
Not sure if this should be in politics or elsewhere, I will leave that to the Mods.
The Ecuadorian government has told the Bush administration it will not renew a 10-year agreement letting U.S. troops conduct anti-drug operations from Manta Air Base, an Ecuadorian Air Force installation, military officials said.
Apparently it was a fairly busy post.
Since the start of U.S. operations there, about 60 percent of the drug interdictions in the eastern Pacific have involved the planes based out of Manta, including the capture of more than 200 metric tons of drugs in 2007, according to U.S. military officials.
Our other bases are in El Salvador and Curacao. Looks like we'll need a new location for patrolling the Pacific.
Not sure if this should be in politics or elsewhere, I will leave that to the Mods.