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Ecuador. - A small plane crashed Mexican enrollment in coastal Ecuador and whose two crew died was "big money" and conducting an "illegal operation", HE Interior Minister, Jose Serrano, when it releases the accident. The official did not specify the amount of money, but assumed that the volume of wads of cash "was to wash or pay drug that is going to take the country." The aircraft crashed last night near the town of Pedernales, 230 kilometers from Quito, at a time when making his landing procedure probably in a clandestine airstrip located one mile from where it crashed. Serrano said the plane, "apparently out of Mexico" and entered Ecuadorian territory without lights and at low altitude to avoid the location. He added that it was an "illegal and unlawful operation." Interior Minister said that the Andean country has a critical problem when foreign mafias "is used as a step of drugs," because, he said, do not exist in any part of Ecuador plantations of narcotic plants. The plane is now subject to investigations by the Civil Aviation and the State Attorney. The latter body was gathered evidence, among which stood a woman's purse. Has not been able to establish the identity and nationality of the deceased.
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