The Jackals

When the loans fail and the president balks, Perkins wrote, other specialists fly in.

Perkins' term for the layer past economics: when debt leverage fails, destabilization and assassination follow. His cited cases — Torrijos (Panama, 1981 plane crash) and Roldós (Ecuador, 1981 plane crash, months apart, both oil-nationalizing leaders — the coincidence is real and both crashes drew official suspicion locally) — have documented investigations without conclusive findings. The confirmed adjacent record (Condor, the Church-era plots) establishes the category exists; attribution in these two cases remains open. Links Condor and the economic-hitmen file.