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

<p>An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’</p><p>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.</p><p>“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.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/21/ecuador-us-boat-strike-survivors">Continue reading...</a>