A Former Economic Hitman "Confessed" in Ecuador for 'Globalization' Crimes.

JUNE 1, 2007 (LPAC)--John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman , was in Quito, Ecuador, last May 22th to ask for forgiveness to the Ecuadorian people and to reveal his former activities on behalf international financial cliques.

Last year, Perkins made headlines in Ecuador when he was asked about the Economic Hitmen in that country. He cited as an example the cases of two former Ecuadorian Presidents, Jaime Roldos, who died in an "air accident", and Lucio Gutierrez, who was ousted after he sold the country out to the IMF.

The international financial community, through their Economic Hitmen, presented both former Presidents with the same choices--a bag full of money or a bullet. Roldos rejected the money, and Gutierrez took it.

On May 23, three days after Perkins spoke in Quito, former President Abdala Bucaram warned of a conspiracy against President Rafael Correa, who revealed simultaneously that he was being targeted by the financial oligarchy.

A film crew from Greece's public TV, Hellenic Broadcasting Co. was also in Quito with Perkins, to make a documentary about him and his confessions. The team is headed by journalist Stellios Kouloglou, editor in chief of the program Report without Borders.

In his best-selling 2005 book, Perkins revealed that during the 1970's, he worked as an undercover agent of a US agency charged with forcing developing nations to become deeply indebted, bribing governments, and then causing them to fall prey of the IMF "conditionalities". When that mission failed, then the "Economic Hitmen" came in, to punish independent governments. He said that this is what happened with Ecuador's Jaime Roldos, and with Panamanian former President Omar Torrijos, to whom he dedicated his book.

(For EIR's review of Perkin's book, see