Given the long, storied history of involvement of US troops and CIA agents in drug trafficking operations, from Air America to Iran Contra to the CIA’s alleged ties to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, who is known as the godfather of Mexico’s drug business, one can’t help but wonder whether Ecuador is about to see a sharp increase in cocaine exports to Europe and other parts of the world, just as happened with heroin in Afghanistan after the US-NATO invasion and occupation of that country. Ecuador is already believed to be the largest departure point for cocaine to Western and Central Europe.