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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/21
« Last post by enslaved1 on April 21, 2026, 03:38:31 PM »‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
Have a good amount of salt available. The US troops supposedly stole the crew's beer and managed to confiscate almost everyone's cellphones to delete all but a couple of photos. The official response so far...
Doesn't guarantee something didn't happen, but I'm not betting much on the accuracy of this account.
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By 4pm, the light was softening over the Pacific, and the crew of the Don Maca were finishing a long day hauling in lines of swordfish and albacore. Down in the hold, the mood had settled into the familiar rhythm of a fishing day drawing to a close.
“We were just working, waiting for the last trawler to return,” said Jhonny Sebastián Palacios, one of the fishers. “Everything was perfectly fine.”
From nowhere, an explosion ripped through the boat. “There was a sudden crash – boom! It came from a drone,” he said.
The blast tore through the vessel, shattering glass, and injuring several crew members. “I ran upstairs and saw the boat destroyed … The whole ship was stripped bare,” he said.
A group of Ecuadorian fishers have described how they were attacked in a double drone strike and then detained at gunpoint by soldiers on a US-flagged patrol vessel, in a rare first-hand account by victims of Donald Trump’s militarized campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats off South America.
Have a good amount of salt available. The US troops supposedly stole the crew's beer and managed to confiscate almost everyone's cellphones to delete all but a couple of photos. The official response so far...
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The Pentagon and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. US Southern Command said it had “no information to provide regarding any US government personnel involvement in any of the incidents” laid out.
Doesn't guarantee something didn't happen, but I'm not betting much on the accuracy of this account.
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