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Homepage CIA Propaganda CIA Payroll Jaime Roldos S.I.L. Texaco = = Jaime Roldos was a university professor and attorney in his late thirties. He established a reputation as a populist and nationalist, he believed strongly in rights for the poor and the responsibility of politicians to use a country's natural resources prudently. He was a reformer, and was threatened more than once by personal enemies. Roldós and his wife founded the People, Change and Democracy Party in Spanish. He was President during a brief military encounter with Peru in 1981. He died in an airplane crash later in 1981 when his Air Force plane crashed in heavy rain near the Peruvian border. All eight other passengers and crew died as well.

When Roldos began campaigning for president in 1978, he got the attention of the citizens where foreign interests exploited oil. He went after the oil companies and the system that supported them. He accused the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), of sinister collusion with the oil companies. The SIL had been encouraging the indigenous tribes that happen to live on oil land to leave and move to other places. The indigenous tribes caught on and got angry with the SIL. The SIL began receiving funds from Rockefeller charities. Jamie Roldos claimed that the Rockefeller connections proved that SIL was really a front for stealing indigenous lands and promoting oil exploration.

Many Ecuadorians claimed that Roldos' death was actually an assassination carried out by the United States since he has refused international proposals for oil exploitation. American businessman John Perkins alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man that Roldos was assassinated by a bomb located in a tape recorder in order to serve American interests in Ecuadorian oil prospects (Perkins originally claimed Roldos died in a helicopter crash; this has since been corrected). Roldos died just months before Panamanian head-of-state Omar Torrijos also died in a plane crash. Other Ecuadorians believed that Roldos had been killed by the Peruvian government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Rold%C3%B3s_Aguilera Perkins, John. __Confessions of an Economic Hit Man__.