Jaime Roldós assassination

Ecuador

1981, May 24

He pushed for independent oil policy. Threatening to remove any company that didn't work on behalf of the Ecuadorian people.

Sources

Books

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
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Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
by Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennete
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Politics and Petroleum in Ecuador
by John Martz
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