Secretive Galapagos strikes hint at Trump’s Latin American ambitions
The US has been striking alleged ‘narcoterrorism’ boats in the Caribbean and east Pacific since September 2025. The Trump administration has been militarising the region, backing like-minded dictators and killing people ever since. They even kidnapped the Venezuelan president. Now, new reporting suggests a parallel but separate operation carried out in March 2026 killed or kidnapped fisherman near the Galapagos islands. It is not clear if this operation was carried out by the CIA itself or private military contractors in its employ. According to new reporting from The Washington Post, the CIA was behind the secret attacks on three Ecuadorian fishing…

