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Ecuadorean crews plying the waters of the Pacific have been targeted by a mysterious outfit equipped with drones. Some sailors appear to have lost their lives.
The US appears to have secretly issued letters of marque to mercenaries authorizing them to rob and kill fishermen
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This is weird. Why lie about this but not about the other us-backed strikes on Ecuador?
Its not like it’s a secret that the US military is backing the Colombian military, and they haven’t been shy about taking credit for the various boat strikes/raids elsewhere in south/central america - what makes these cases special?
If they’re like historic use of letters of marque, what’s special is that the fishermen had something of value, such as personal jewelery, which made it possible to kill them for profit
I’ll confess that I’m honestly pretty skeptical about the true letters-of-marque angle here. It seems… somehat unlikely that there’s any way looting Ecuadorian fishermen makes economic sense. Deploying drones, raiders, planes, etc. is an expensive undertaking, and the average Ecuadorian fisherman isn’t exactly flush with cash, high-value equipment or a hold full of spanish silver.
It seems, idk, a tad more credible that the explanation is something more like they’re simply denying the degree of cooperation between the Colombian and American forces, or that american affiliated forces are operating in the region at all.