A motorcycle hitman allegedly killed an Ecuadorian lawyer investigating US drone strikes. Alexandra Bravo and her sister were killed on 14 June 2026 when a hitman “aboard a black motorcycle opened fire”. This may be the latest phase in a renewed US bid to dominate the Americas.
US drone strikes probe
Drop Site News reported:
Upon arriving at the crime scene, officers say they found five 9mm shell casings and Bravo’s injured driver, but no sign of the police detail that had been assigned to protect her. The Police Directorate, which operates entirely under the executive branch, has launched a probe to determine if there’d been an internal security breach.
Bravo represented individuals hit in at-sea drone strikes. They also claimed to have been tortured in US captivity. The US-based outlet said:
Bravo is the 26th member of Ecuador’s justice system to be assassinated since 2020 and the second individual investigating state crimes murdered that week.
Besides her usual caseload of homicide and organized crime, Bravo had been working the Fiorella, Negra Francisca, and Don Maca cases—a series of drone attacks on civilian fishing ships exposed by Drop Site in April.
The US has been carrying out drone strikes against vessels it claims are connected to so-called narco-terrorism since early 2026. The US killed 261 people since September 2025, NGO Airwars claims.
US-backed dictator and Trump-allied thug
Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa is a:
Miami-born billionaire often characterized as a “U.S.-backed dictator”.
Ecuador has become what Drop Site describes as
a central testing ground for Operation Southern Spear, Washington’s extrajudicial bombing campaign purporting to target “narco-terrorists”.
There is no evidence that many of the victims, including those in Bravo’s investigation, had engaged in drug trafficking.
Human rights lawyer Fernando Bastias told the outlet:
I can’t make any assertion regarding it being a political assassination, but evidently, when a prosecutor is killed it’s because of the investigation they’re conducting.
That’s something we’ve learned from our experience in Ecuador.
A police source told Drop Site, Bravo was
under pressure from her superiors at the Attorney General’s office to treat the U.S. attacks as exclusively “cases of disappearance.”
Bravo’s work was reportedly in the early stages of her investigation.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has reported drone strikes have had no negative impact on cocaine flows into the US:
Military boat strikes haven’t reduced U.S. cocaine supply, DEA assesses
An internal DEA report reviewed by The Washington Post found that U.S. military strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats have not reduced cocaine supply in the U.S., instead prompting traffickers to…
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) July 27, 2026
Donald Trump’s administration intends to bring the Western Hemisphere under American control. The peak so far has been the 3 January kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro by US special forces. That spectacular raid is to be just the start of renewed US violence in the Americas.
Featured image via the Canary
By Joe Glenton
