The U.S. military struck an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean Wednesday, killing four people. The Pentagon offered no evidence that the boat was carrying drugs. The attack brings the total death toll to at least 163 people since the Trump administration began targeting so-called narcoterrorists in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific last September.
Meanwhile, a New York Times investigation has found that a March 6 strike jointly conducted by the U.S. and Ecuador against an alleged drug trafficker’s training camp actually destroyed a dairy farm in the remote Ecuadorian village of San Martín in the Amazon jungle. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had posted video of the strike online, writing that the U.S. was “bombing Narco Terrorists on land.” Local residents told the Times that Ecuadorian soldiers arrived by helicopter three days before the bombing, interrogated and beat four farmworkers, and set fire to shelters and sheds before returning to bomb the dairy farm. The Alliance for Human Rights, a coalition of groups in Ecuador, filed a 13-page complaint with the Ecuadorian authorities and the United Nations.









