Ecuador and the United States: Useful Strangers

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This history of relations between Ecuador and the United States is a revealing case study of how a small, determined country has exploited its marginal status when dealing with a global superpower. Ranging from Ecuadors struggle for independence in the 1820s and 1830s to the present day, the book examines the misunderstandings, tensions, andfrom the U.S. perspectiveoften unintended consequences that have sometimes arisen in relations between the two countries.Such interactions included U.S. efforts in Ecuador to stem yellow fever, build railroads, and institute economic reforms. Many of the two countries exchanges in the twentieth century stemmed from the global disruptions of World War II and the cold war. More recently, Ecuadorian and U.S. interests have been in contest over fishing rights, foreign development of Ecuadorian oil resources, and Ecuadors emergence as a transit country in the drug trade.