Ecuadorian fishermen testify to surviving US drone strikes

Donald Trump’s so-called war on drugs strikes again—targeting civilians, treating suspicion as guilt, and producing false positives to inflate results in a war that benefits those at the top.

New testimonies that have been ignored in US media reveal that on March 17, US and Salvadoran military forces attacked an Ecuadorian fishing vessel on the false grounds that it was a narco trafficking boat.

Days later, another Ecuadorian vessel—the Don Maca—was also targeted by US drones.

As their boat burned, the fishermen tried to survive—only to be detained.
They were handcuffed, hooded, and taken aboard a foreign military vessel… while their own ship was destroyed.

For five days, the crew of the Don Maca was declared disappeared — held incommunicado in custody in El Salvador.

These were not the only cases, as we will see in this report.

In the name of the so-called war on drugs, the line between combatant and civilian is no longer blurred — it’s disappearing.

By Oscar Leon

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