After months of bombing ships suspected of carrying drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, the United States congratulated themselves on March 6 for carrying out their first land operation against “narcoterrorists” in Latin America, in coordination with the Ecuadorian government of Daniel Noboa. The explosion, which was captured on camera and shared on social media by a Pentagon member, was intended to serve as a warning to the new enemies of Donald Trump.
However, investigations by the New York Times and the AFP indicate that this attack may have actually targeted a traditional dairy farm, not armed groups, in the province of Sucumbíos. This incident cast a shadow, just days after another bombing incident near the Colombian border went awry.
Three farm workers told the New York daily that Ecuadorian soldiers had first arrived by helicopter on March 3, dousing several shelters and sheds 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 smoldering rubble of the farm” for.
