Three vessels have been attacked in the eastern Pacific in recent months and the crews believe the US was to blame

Captain Hernán Flores was fishing with his crew about 170 miles off the coast of Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands on 17 March when an explosion cut through the air and an unmanned drone crashed into the cabin of his boat, exploding into flames. Flores’s nephew was hit. The attack split his face and cracked his foot, exposing the bone.
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“As we approached with the wounded man, we saw several Americans pointing guns at us,” Flores said. “They were yelling ‘hands up’ in Spanish, using translators. I was the first to go up; they handcuffed me behind my back, put a hood over my head, and took me to the top of the boat. They sat us down one by one on the deck.
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The next morning, Flores said his crew were transferred on to a large Salvadorian coastguard vessel, where they were reported as a “shipwrecked crew”. He said they spent eight days sailing north to Puerto Unión, a coastal city in El Salvador, and were placed in temporary detention.
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In a letter obtained by the Guardian, the Democratic representatives Joaquin Castro of Texas and Bill Keating of Massachusetts in the House foreign affairs committee confront senior administration officials with survivor testimony, UN intervention, and a direct challenge to the Pentagon’s denials to demand whether the United States has been telling the truth.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/ecuador-fishing-boats-us-strikes