[Salon] About those drug boats



BREAKING: WTF? Ecuadorian prosecutor investigating the kidnapping and TORTURE of fishermen by Hegseth’s maritime goon squad is GUNNED DOWN in broad daylight!
In a story that gets darker by the minute, an Ecuadorian prosecutor named Alexandra Bravo was murdered in broad daylight June 14 after investigating allegations that uniformed U.S. military personnel attacked civilian fishing boats, kidnapped and tortured survivors, then dumping them in El Salvador
According to Drop Site News, Bravo was shot to death as she left a café with her sister, who was also killed. Police reported the security detail that was supposed to be protecting her were nowhere to be found.
Bravo had been investigating three incidents involving Ecuadorian fishing vessels. Crew members accused armed men in U.S. military uniforms of bombing their boats, abducting survivors, and then blindfolding and starving them for eight days before abandoning them in El Salvador.
The United Nations has called for an investigation and asked the United States for information about eight fishermen who remain missing. The U.S. has not publicly responded. The Pentagon, U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. Southern Command have all denied any knowledge of or responsibility for the incidents.
But the timing is extremely suspicious. Bravo was removed from the case just days before her murder, and her replacement was reportedly told not to speak with journalists.
Adding more fuel to the fire, Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro and Bill Keating sent a letter to Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Coast Guard leadership just one day before Bravo was killed, demanding answers about any U.S. involvement.
Whether Bravo’s murder was directly connected to her investigation into these alleged U.S. military actions remains unproven. She is among more than two dozen members of Ecuador’s justice system to be assassinated since 2020, and was amidst other high-profile investigations at the time.
But the optics are horrific for the Trump tramps – a prosecutor looking into potential American war crimes on civilian fishermen ends up dead, and the U.S. remains silent.
This is the kind of story that should send chills down the spine of anyone who still believes in accountability. And the picture it paints of the Navy as a seaborne goon squad running amok in Caribbean waters flying U.S. colors is just appalling.
Nothing is yet proven, but sadly, the proverbial shoe fits.


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