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DevonRex

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12. Now I get it. Oil 40% of exports. Also Colombia to the north.

Reply to patrice (Reply #10)

Thu Jun 27, 2013, 05:50 PM

Jun 2013

Yes, coastal location. Four major rivers feed the Amazon. And do not forget altitude which comes in handy in some forms of collection. And they do collect SIGINT on their own people and others.

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Their resource? Labor, perhaps? Because oppression by any other means would stink just as bad, or patrice Jun 2013 #9

It's on the coast. & I wonder what its relations are like in its region, especially with patrice Jun 2013 #10

Now I get it. Oil 40% of exports. Also Colombia to the north. DevonRex Jun 2013 #12

It is OK to leak Ecuadorian documents but not US documents? Downwinder Jun 2013 #8

authoritarians are also nationalists. Warren Stupidity Jun 2013 #11

Only Ecuadorians can answer that. geek tragedy Jun 2013 #13