After months of bombing ships suspected of transporting drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, the United States congratulated themselves on March 6 for carrying out their first ground operation against “narcoterrorists” in Latin America, in coordination with the Ecuadorian government of Daniel Noboa. The explosion, captured in images shared on social media by a Pentagon member, was intended as a warning to new enemies of Donald Trump.
However, investigations by the New York Times and AFP suggest that this attack actually targeted a traditional dairy farm, not armed groups, in the province of Sucumbíos. This incident comes shortly after reports of another bombing gone wrong on the Colombian border.
Three farm workers told the New York newspaper that Ecuadorian soldiers first arrived by helicopter on March 3, dousing several shelters and hangars with gasoline before setting them on fire and assaulting the farmers with rifle butts, strangling them, and administering electric shocks. They allegedly returned on March 6 to “drop explosives on the still smoking rubble of the farm.”
