Joe Lyons

The U.S. struck a dairy farm in Ecuador after mistaking it for a cartel base — NYT Local residents say Ecuadorian soldiers interrogated and beat workers before the attack but found no links to cartels. Despite that, the buildings were burned, and later a missile strike was carried out with support from U.S. intelligence. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth even published footage of the strike, presenting it as an attack on “narco-terrorists.”