Tourists in the Tuna War

Ecuador is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to order a tuna salad sandwich there.

In the undeclared Great Tuna War, Ecuador claims a two-hundred-mile territorial limit for fishing rights. The United States recognizes a twelve-mile limit, and fishes in the other 188 miles. When they’re caught, American fishermen are forced to dock in Guayaquil and to pay a stiff fine. (Uncle Sam picks up the tab.) On a wall in Guayaquil somebody has painted the words, “Nixon, the Tuna Thief.”