Today our host Reagan Des Vignes speaks with Marc Becker, a researcher and lecturer of Latin American Studies, who came across upon some archives pertaining to the presence of the FBI in Ecuador in the 1940s and was stunned by some of the acknowledgements in the files. The interview touches on what the FBI was doing in Ecuador during World War II and what its main interests were. Becker was surprised to find out that the agency was more interested in economic control than in ideology and sees certain parallels with today’s situation. He is now using the FBI records to reconstruct a history of the political left in Ecuador. teleSUR