Confessions of an Economic Hitman (pg 143 - 181)

Summary

To John, Ecuador is like second home, home away from home. He visited Ecuador. In Ecuador Johnmet Jaime Roldos a university professor and attorney in his late thirties. He wanted to redistribute wealth and land to the poor people of his country and he wanted to do that with oil. He had to fight multi-national oil corporations in his bid to control Ecuador's vast oil reserves. The Summer Institute of linguistics (SIL), a missionary group from the U.S did not support Roldos. The SIL main purpose or goal was teaching English to native tribes people throughout the Central American region. By doing that they were now able to teach them Christianity and urge them to set up and attend church services. John admires Roldos and other leaders like him for having the courage to stand up to powerful organizations for the good of people who could never pay him back. Bruno, on of Main employes got fired and it shock the people at Main. The Chairman of the company had fired Bruno because he was threatened by his powerful nature and incredible profit earnings the company had produced under his command. They wanted people that were not a big threat for them. After that John became angry and h e hated the life he had created for himself. He quit when he returned to Boston on April 1, 1980. The President of Ecuador died and John express his sadness over the death of Roldos even though he expected it. Just a couple months after the strange death of Roldos, Torrijos died in plane crash. John struggled with being an expert witness because he was testifying under oath that he believed in the is economic predictions even though he knew they were leis. In early 1980's John remarried a woman name Winifred and had a daughter they name Jessica. He than made a company name Independent Power Systems (IPS). The company developed power plants that benefited the environment. After that he sold IPS and became a very well paid adviser on the board of a growing energy company, Stone and Webster Engineering and Construction.

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" He also confessed to having nightmares about his own assassination;he saw himself dropping from the sky in a gigantic fireball"( Perkins 157).

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This is ironic because he foreshadows his own death. I found it weird and funny how he can have a dream of how he was going to die and and he eventually died that way. He did not know if he was going to die in a plan crash but he knew it would involve falling from the sky and fire. Like him I had dream where i say myself falling from a high play and it is not a pleasant thing to dream. For him it was probably devastating.