U.S. Lawmakers Demand Pentagon Halt Anti-Drug Operations in Ecuador, Suggest They May Involve Forces Accused of Torture
The lawmakers seek an independent probe and a May 22 response after reports of civilian targeting, torture and other abuses in joint operations.
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U.S. Lawmakers Demand Pentagon Halt Anti-Drug Operations in Ecuador, Suggest They May Involve Forces Accused of Torture
The lawmakers cited a recent report indicating that one site targeted during operations appeared to be a dairy and cattle farm with no known links to drug trafficking or armed groups
The letter to Pete Hegseth comes on the same day that the president of Ecuador arrives in Washington to meet with the Trump administration, but not with the president, who is in Beijing, and after a delegation of correista assembly members denounced in the Capitol the authoritarian drift of Daniel Noboa
A group of U.S. congressmen has demanded from the Pentagon the “immediate” suspension of the joint military operations it is carrying out with Ecuador’s forces in the north of that country for the fight against “terrorist organizations” of drug trafficking operating in that area. In a letter, sent to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and to which EL PAÍS has had access, the legislators demand that this mission be cancelled until an investigation in…
Democratic Congressmen have sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, expressing concern over alleged human rights violations in recent joint military operations in Ecuador and asking to suspend them pending an investigation. "We are deeply concerned about reports of serious human rights violations and the bombing of what appear to have been civilian installations during joint military operations between the U.S. and Ecuador, carried …
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