The US bombed a farm and lied -Ecuadorian community leader

The U.S. Department of Defense took credit for an attack on a so-called terrorist organization.

Claiming it had bombed a training and storage site.

However, it turned out they had struck a dairy farm.

Local media documented torture, burn homes, kill, livestock, and the bombing of civilian structures

by boots on the ground, the Ecuadorian Army.

The Grazon spoke to an eyewitness.

Vicente Garrido, the community's vice president, described what happened.

They had those guys tied up with black bags over their heads.

This wasn't a mistake.

It follows a familiar pattern, counterinsurgency tactics used against civilians.

The workers were later released, no charges, no evidence, only a stark warning.

They were told by the military they never wanted to see them in Ecuador again.

And that if they returned, they would be killed.

In a region with no police, no intelligence, no services, where the government should

be building trust with the locals, it arrived with bombs.

Imagine the U.S. military attacking and bombing towns on our own side of the border.

Well, it seems that is how things run in Ecuador.

Instead of protecting their border, they attack it without any intelligence of what is actually in there.

While organized crime penetrates state institutions.

There is no serious crackdown on money laundering, but there are military operations against farms.

Security or spectacle.

The United Nations Human Rights Group and even the New York Times have questioned the official narrative.

This was not a guerrilla camp, it was a farm.

Still, the government pushes forward.

Back internationally, by Trump, while ignoring the community is affected.

In San Martín, there is no state presence, so someone had to step in.

Don Vicente is the community's vice president.

The man people call when something happens.

And for speaking out, he was targeted and is now under direct threat.

At the last residence they raided.

When they left, they told them that they're coming back for me because I made this public.

Fredden, for talking to the press, for telling the truth, for exposing the government's lies.

This isn't just a military operation.

In a symmetric war on the population, where the state itself becomes a weapon of the few.

An entire community is left defenseless.

When we heard that blast, that bomb that landed right there,

well, naturally, we weren't about to go anywhere near the place.

Only to get blown to pieces by another bomb dropped right on top of us.

After all, aircraft were circling overhead for about two hours straight, so no.

We simply couldn't get anywhere close.

Equally, we haven't had, so to speak, any dialogue with the military officers

or with representatives of the government to find out why they did this to our community.

In San Martín, they didn't find a guerrilla camp.

They found farmers, and now they want them to be silent.