US claims it is not responsible for strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats – so who is?

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. “Some guys looked for an extinguisher, but the fir...

By Joseph Gedeon and Cate Brown in Washington