Top Prosecutor of Trump War Crimes Is Killed in Street

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What happened to the Ecuadorian prosecutor investigating US boat strikes?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
The prosecutor investigating US boat strikes and torture allegations in Ecuador in connection with the Trump war crimes blowing up those boats off the coast of Venezuela. The prosecutor was assassinated in a courageous scoop by Camilla Lords Galarza. She writes about how she uncovered NASA images and videos of the U.S. Coast Guard corroborating testimony of victims. And then the prosecutors working on the case and the main prosecutor was shot and killed in broad daylight. Crystal Ball talks about this deeply disturbing story about how these survivors of the U.S. boat strikes Operation Southern Spear, as Trump and Hegseth and Southern Command are calling it, how these survivors were kidnapped when they returned to Ecuador.
Ben Meiselas 0:54
They were tortured for days by the military. The prosecutor investigating their claims was just assassinated after the prosecutor's boss who effectively was like the attorney general was telling the prosecutor stay away just say it was a random disappearance don't dig any further and this prosecutor her name was alexandra bravo She continued to investigate the allegations by 36 survivors who say that after they survived U.S. strikes, they got back to Ecuador. They say they were tortured, that they were kidnapped, and she was trying to get to the killed uh over there upon arriving at the crime scene officers say they found five nine millimeter shell casings and bravo's injured driver but no sign of a police detail that was supposed to be assigned to protect her the police directorate which operates entirely under the executive branch launched a probe to determine was there an internal security breach
Ben Meiselas 2:02
according to this article. Now, who sits at the top of that government? None other than a guy named Daniel Neboa. Who's Neboa?

How did Camila Lora-Galarza's reporting corroborate survivors' claims with satellite and Coast Guard evidence?

Ben Meiselas 2:10
He's from Miami. He's a Miami-born billionaire who Trump put in Ecuador. Remember, we covered the Neboa election over there. Donald Trump is doing grounding. A lot of people don't talk about this, but there are currently active ground invasion and wars trump regime and neboa there are lots of people who raise allegations about neboa his family in the area and that neboa could be using these troops to just further cement his dictatorship and his control in ecuador saying they're going after narco traffickers but really just going after people who they believe are enemies in the way that Donald Trump has labeled anybody who disagrees with him now. Think about the language, very similar. Anybody who doesn't agree with Trump, he's using the language of Neboa, he's using the language of his other dictators that he puts in Western Hemisphere.
Ben Meiselas 3:09
You're a communist, he says it's the biggest threat, bigger than the Nazis, right? What's Trump's speech that he gives lately? The communists are here. This is more dangerous than Hitler, more dangerous than 9-11. They're amongst us. And that's how he refers to people who just don't agree with him politically and people who want access to health care and affordable housing. He says, worse than the hijackers on 9-11 and Adolf Hitler. And that's the dehumanizing language that's used to kill whole classes of people. Fernando Bastias, a renowned human rights attorney with a Geneva-based world organization, says, I can't make any assertion yet regarding this being a political assassination. But evidently, when a prosecutor is killed because of the investigation they're conducting, that's something we've learned from our experience in Ecuador.
Ben Meiselas 4:09
And the Operation Southern Spear, it's already killed. 221 people have been killed when the Trump regime kills these fishing boats. A lot of the data that comes out, just so you know, is that the criteria for attacking the boats There's not a criteria that the boats be proven to actually have drugs on them at all. Just think about that. That's not a criteria. The criteria is very murky. There's no due process, and the Trump regime just kills people. Just kills one after another. You will also recall that the former commander of South Com resigned, did not want any part of this, and the Trump regime put in a new person at Southern Command.

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