Turns out one of those boats the US drone strikes was a stranded fisherman who was sending a distress signal before he was bombed.
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Fixed
You sure it's not Stephen Miller making those decisions or exon mobile/Chevron. Administrations change but the same destabilizing policies stay in placeFixed
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Piff Perkins
Veteran
That's why that black admiral quit before they did this. He knew this shyt was madness. I hope everyone involved understands they're going to jail the second a dem gets in the DOJ again. I'm sure the big names will get pardons by Trump (Rubio, etc). But if you're the admiral (and anyone else involved) who ok'd this you're fukked.
Cryptocurrency Scarface
Coinbased
All of them^
RIP to the fisherman that got caught up in all this. 
. This is realllllly bad cause this isn't legal from the start. No one is shedding a tear for a Narco dealer but killing a random fisherman that sent out a SOS to begin with is bad PR.
. This is realllllly bad cause this isn't legal from the start. No one is shedding a tear for a Narco dealer but killing a random fisherman that sent out a SOS to begin with is bad PR.
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No evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean Sea committed any crime, says Ecuador
FP News Desk • October 21, 2025, 13:09:41 ISTWhatsappFacebookTwitter
In a rejection of US President Donald Trump’s claims that the individuals targeted by the US military in the Caribbean Sea were drug traffickers, Ecuador has released the survivor of a recent strike without charge and said there is no evidence he committed any crime.
 "No evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean Sea committed any crime, says Ecuador")
This handout photo released by the US Defence Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) shows the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely in the Red Sea on June 7, 2024. It is one of the warships deployed towards Venezuela for counternarcotics operations. (Photo: DVIDS/AFP)
In a rejection of US President Donald Trump’s claims that the individuals targeted by the US military in the Caribbean Sea were drug traffickers, Ecuador has released the survivor of a recent strike without charge and said there is no evidence he committed any crime.
An Ecuadorian official on Monday told The Associated Press that the survivor, Andres Fernando Tufino, has been released.
Separately, the AP cited an official document as saying that “there is no evidence or indication that could lead prosecutors or judicial authorities to be certain” of any violation of current laws by Tufino.
Last week, the US military struck a vessel in the Caribbean Sea that was purportedly carrying drugs. Unlike previous strikes, two people on the vessel survived the strike and were detained by the US military. Trump later announced that they will be repatriated to their home countries Colombia and Ecuador.
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Trump says US will repatriate 2 survivors of ‘submarine’ attack to Ecuador and ColombiaThe Colombian national released by the US military remains hospitalised by press time, according to AP.
At the orders of Trump, the US military has so far struck at least seven vessels in the Caribbean Sea and killed at least 32 people since September. While Trump has dubbed these people as “narco-terrorists” bringing drugs to the United States and claimed he has powers to order their summary killings as if they were enemy soldiers in a war, legal scholars have said the campaign is illegal as the military may only use lethal force if attack or facing an imminent attack.
Second strike targeting Columbian nationals
The strike on Thursday was at least the second strike that targeted Colombian nationals.Previously, Colombian President Gustavo Petro had said that one of the boats struck by the US military was Colombian and was carrying Colombian nationals.
In another case, a Trinidadian family has said one of its members was likely killed in another US strike.
Notably, even though the US military has struck at least seven boats and killed dozens of people, the Trump administration has not released names of anyone whom they have killed or any evidence of drugs in those vessels.
Irrespective of the criticism, Trump has vowed to continue these strikes that critics see as a thinly veiled campaign against Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro.
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Trump has deployed around 10,000 personnel and several warships, at least one submarine, and fighter planes in the Caribbean Sea around Venezuela. Critics suspect that the build-up and strikes on purportedly drug-carrying vessels is part of efforts to set up a pretext to invade Venezuela and oust Maduro.
As far as the Colombian national released by the US military, the Colombian government said he “will be prosecuted according to the law” for alleged drug trafficking.
After Petro said that US strikes killed Colombian nationals, Trump called him “an illegal drug leader” and “a lunatic”.
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fisherman was just tryna catch his daily meal and gets hit with the drone 
Low End Derrick
Veteran
tbf they have faced Venezuelan aggression so probably need protection.
Doesn't excuse running roughshod over their territorial waters and killing their citizens, though.