Carrie Kahn

In that case, human rights lawyer Fernando Bastias says that 20 fishermen were

gave testimony that their ship was attacked by an aircraft.

Bastia says what happens next fits a pattern that has been observed in two incidents and possibly a third.

After the attack, a ship from the United States then makes its way to the disabled vessel, and at gunpoint, the fishermen are forced on board the U.S.

ship, he says.

The men are then restrained, hoods are put over their heads, and according to these testimonies, they are then transported by sea for days with little food and water to El Salvador.

Ultimately, the men were returned to Ecuador, where they are speaking out.

And family members of a crew from a third incident back in January say they received messages of a similar attack underway, but haven't heard from their relatives since and fear they're dead or maybe still being held in El Salvador.

In a statement, Southcom tells NPR it has no knowledge of any of those incidents off Ecuador.

The Trump administration, and since the months-long action striking suspected drug trafficking boats are working, President Trump likes to cite numbers of lives saved from overdoses in the U.S.,

by killing these seafaring drug traffickers.

But most drug overdoses in the USA are caused by fentanyl, which is not trafficked on the seas from South America.

And these are mostly fairy cocaine.

And even the South Command General Francis Donovan doubts the strike's efficacy.

He told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March that, quote, boat strikes aren't the answer.

You're welcome.

Electoral officials are still counting the votes and estimate they may not have the final results until the middle of next month.

The conservative daughter of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori took the first place spot out of a field of 35.

But all eyes are on second place to challenge Keiko Fujimori in the June general election.

Right now, a little more than 10,000 votes separate the two top vote-getters.