20 days ago · Quito
US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian World is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Quito. The first report grouped here was at 26 Sept 2026, 16:00 UTC. The headline in use is “US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’ While the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, was being decorated in Quito by Ecuador’s president for “helping to promote peace in the region”, 10 Ecuadorian fishers whose boat had…
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- First reported by The Guardian World
US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
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- The Guardian