The complex is built to under an Aztec ruins by Drax Industries as one of the Moonraker launch bases in the Amazon. It's also where are the deadly orchids grow. The orchids were "a curse to a civilization" and the orchids were the cause of the fall of the civilization who built the ruins because the orchids was special to them. The death was caused by long-term exposure to the orchids' pollen caused sterility. Hugo Drax manage to use the orchids to convert them to a deadly nerve gas so he can wipe out humanity and repopulate the Earth with his master race.