Families of Missing Ecuadorian Fishermen Demand US Answers

Eight Ecuadorian fishermen vanished from their fishing waters after reporting the presence of US surveillance operations nearby — and in the silence that followed, their families have been left to construct meaning from absence. The timing of the disappearance, coming immediately after the men flagged what they had observed at sea, has led loved ones to suspect the fishermen were either killed in a drone strike or taken into unlawful detention. This case surfaces a deeper, unresolved tension between maritime security operations and the lives of civilian communities who share those same waters,