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 The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.
03/24/26 03:48 PM
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By Luis Ferré-Sadurní, José María León Cabrera, Annie Correal and Eric SchmittPhotographs by Federico Rios
Luis Ferré-Sadurní, José María León Cabrera and Federico Rios traveled to San Martín in northern Ecuador to investigate a U.S.-Ecuador military strike.
March 24, 2026
As President Trump prepared to welcome conservative Latin American leaders to a summit in Florida in early March, U.S. officials released a video of a massive explosion — capturing the destruction of what they said was a drug trafficker’s training camp in rural Ecuador.
The video was meant to show that the U.S. military, which for months has bombed boats it says are carrying drugs from South America, was “now bombing Narco Terrorists on land,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on social media.
But a New York Times investigation raises questions about the operation that both the United States and Ecuador spotlighted as part of a new military alliance targeting drug traffickers.
The military strike appears to have destroyed a cattle and dairy farm, not a drug trafficking compound, according to interviews with the farm’s owner, four of its workers, human rights lawyers and residents and leaders in San Martín, the remote farming village in northern Ecuador where the strike took place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/world/americas/us-ecuador-drug-camp-bombing-dairy-farm.html
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