As airstrikes and reports of torture under Ecuador’s U.S.-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site News they were blindfolded and held hostage for eight days.
A truly heartbreaking report. Not once has the US ever provided proof that they are summarily executing drug dealers on the high seas. If anything, this reporting reinforces the widespread belief that they are murdering innocents and, or, torturing survivors of their inhumane attacks. One can only hope - pray - that there is a future in which all the participants of these heinous acts will face a day of reckoning.
I’m not an attorney but pretty clear that these are acts of international terrorism as defined by US law.
1) the term “international terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
Noboa, the “cool” dictator. Have the peoples south of the US border not suffered enough? Decades of extrajudicial killings and regime change. It’s beyond disgusting and cruel. Iran, Lebanon, Venezuela, Cuba, on and on. Enough!
Thank you! This is an incredibly important story and it reveals the complete impunity with which the US and Ecuadorian governments operate. Please share this story widely!
What is the purpose of these vessel seizures? I think it's important to know just what this is all about, whether random violence to cow the public or something else. Knowing what is going on is valuable, but I hope there will soon be a more analytical article.
Thank you for reporting on this. There’s not enough Western news coverage on the US’s war crimes in Latin America
In germany even 0... such a shame
A truly heartbreaking report. Not once has the US ever provided proof that they are summarily executing drug dealers on the high seas. If anything, this reporting reinforces the widespread belief that they are murdering innocents and, or, torturing survivors of their inhumane attacks. One can only hope - pray - that there is a future in which all the participants of these heinous acts will face a day of reckoning.
Is Marco Rubio laying cover for a future Cuba-Ecuador business? Marco’s involvement in his family cocaine business is like media wallpaper these days.
To sink fishing boats and allow the real smugglers to return home doesn’t leave much else to consider.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/23/narco-terrorist-elite-rubio-south-america-iran-contra/
I’m not an attorney but pretty clear that these are acts of international terrorism as defined by US law.
1) the term “international terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331
Noboa, the “cool” dictator. Have the peoples south of the US border not suffered enough? Decades of extrajudicial killings and regime change. It’s beyond disgusting and cruel. Iran, Lebanon, Venezuela, Cuba, on and on. Enough!
Thank you! This is an incredibly important story and it reveals the complete impunity with which the US and Ecuadorian governments operate. Please share this story widely!
What is the purpose of these vessel seizures? I think it's important to know just what this is all about, whether random violence to cow the public or something else. Knowing what is going on is valuable, but I hope there will soon be a more analytical article.
How long are we going to accept this murderous, violent intimidation? Undemocratic to say the least, illegal and unconstitutional too.
I hear you. Apparently a very, very long time. It has been going on all of my 67 years with no end in sight. Trump is the crowning culmination.