'We were terrified they were going to kill us': fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

[demmiblue]

By 4pm, the light was softening over the Pacific, and the crew of the Don Maca were finishing a long day hauling in lines of swordfish and albacore. Down in the hold, the mood had settled into the familiar rhythm of a fishing day drawing to a close.

“We were just working, waiting for the last trawler to return,” Jhonny Sebastián Palacios, one of the fishers, told the Guardian. “Everything was perfectly fine.”

From nowhere, an explosion ripped through the boat. “There was a sudden crash – boom! It came from a drone,” he said.

The blast tore through the vessel, shattering glass, and injuring several crew members. “I ran upstairs and saw the boat destroyed … The whole ship was stripped bare,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/21/ecuador-us-boat-strike-survivors

People need to be held accountable… but they won’t be.

[UpInArms]

1. Hogsbreath is a mad murderer

This shit needs to stop rfn

[Walleye]

2. I am so ashamed of my beloved United States right now

I have worked on salmon boats in Alaska and I can’t imagine having this fear added to the rest of it.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. War crimes

[malaise]

4. THIS

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