"Steve" wrote in message
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This is a particularly lame part of your story, Cornholio. How hard
would it be for the govt to claim that it had to intervene due to
financial wrongdoing within the cooperative--or for one of a thousand
other convenient reasons? Trumping up these kinds of excuses is second
nature to small, conniving minds, as you know perhaps better than
anyone. Juntas aren't typically sticklers for due process. You just
weren't in much of a position to see all of this, being on your knees
most of the time.

As I said, and you did not read, the Ecuadorian junta was modeled after the
Peruvian one commanded by Gral. Velasco. It was not a rightist military
movement, but of the extreme left. The whole idea of giving the stations
away before they were nationalized was that a leftist "peoples" government
would never, ever, in Latin America, do anything against a union,
cooperative or leftist organization. Such a move would have caused the
entire labor, farm workers and cooperative movements to have risen in
protest. And that was why I did it.