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**S.I.L. In Ecuador**
The Summer Institute of Linguistics, or S.I.L., is an Evangelical missionary group from the United Sates. They were suspected of collaborating with oil companies to allow them to gain access in foreign lands in order to obtain oil and turn a profit. S.I.L. entered Ecuador, as it had in many other countries prior, with the decoy motive of studying, recording, and translating indigenous languages. Their main focus was with an Amazon Basin tribe called the Huaorani Tribe. They began working with the Huaoroni during the early years oil exploration and it was at this time when nationalist Jaime Roldos, amongst others, noticed a disturbing pattern. This pattern was that whenever a seismologist reported to corporate headquarters that a certain region had signs of high oil concentration beneath the land, S.I.L. intervened and ecouraged the indigenous people to move from that land and onto missionary reservations. At these reservations they would receive free food, shelter, clothes, medical treatment, and missionary-style education. However, in order to receive these benefits, they would be required to deed their lands to the oil companies. S.I.L. was also accused of using a variety of underhanded techniques that would drive the native people from their lands. One method in particular was that they donated food that was heavily laced with laxatives, then offered medicines to to cure the diarrhea epidemic. S.I.L. also dropped false-bottomed food baskets that contained tiny radio transmitters that could be detected from highly sophisticated communication stations. U.S. military personal, stationed at Shell army base, were now able to tell when someone was bitten by a poisonous snake or became severely sick. When this would occur, an S.I.L. member would arrive with the proper remedies, but the strange thing is that they would often arrive in oil company helicopters. If S.I.L. came to Ecuador with the intentions they had previously claimed they had, then they would have no reason to cooperate or communicate with US oil companies. Ecuador is not the only country that S.I.L. has invaded. According to John Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", Ecuador was just one of many countries to fall victim to S.I.L.'s quest for wealth and power.