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Thank you Breaking Points Commentary for covering my report on the assassination of the prosecutor investigating US strikes and torture. She was shot dead in Manta, where US troops were deployed with blanket immunity seven months ago under Ecuador’s 22 armed conflict decrees. Nevertheless,

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🇪🇨 The key witness in the case against seven Ecuadorian soldiers accused of torturing and extrajudicially killing Bryan Ledesma was found decapitated on the side of a road Friday in the western Ecuadorean port city of Yaguachi. Drop Site contributor Camila Lourdes Galarza reports that in March, amid martial-law checkpoints, military raids, and U.S.-backed Ecuadorean operations purportedly targeting drug trafficking, soldiers detained Ledesma and his friend Yelibert Moreira after claiming they saw them discard suspected drugs. No drugs were ever recovered, and prosecutors later said neither man had committed a crime. Soldiers then beat both men and tortured them with electric shocks. Ledesma died after being shocked while lying in a puddle of water. Moreira was hospitalized but survived to become a key witness against the seven soldiers charged in the case. He has now been murdered. In recent months, Ecuador has deployed 75,000 soldiers, placed more than 70% of the country under military-enforced curfews, and carried out bombings as part of its U.S.-backed campaign purportedly targeting organized crime. Ecuador’s Attorney General’s Office has recorded 244 complaints of excessive force in recent years and 23 reported extrajudicial killings in the last six months. Last month, Galarza published an exposé for Drop Site on the assassination of a prosecutor investigating U.S. boat strikes and torture allegations. Read at the link in reply. Below are eyewitness videos of the assault on Ledesma that circulated widely on social media. By Camila Lourdes Galarza

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