A drone registered to the American defence contractor Shield AI was hovering 500 metres from the burning wreck of an Ecuadorian fishing boat within hours of it being bombed in the eastern Pacific, flight tracking data shows. La Negra Francisca was struck at 1:02pm on 17 March 2026 at coordinates 1.5822°N, 87.6958°W, a position corroborated by NASA thermal imagery consistent with an explosion recorded at the same moment, at the point where the ve…
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