"Ecuador has released a man who survived a US strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submarine, after finding no evidence that he had committed a crime, the attorney general's office has said. The United States has deployed warships to the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela since August, attacking mostly boats that US authorities said were running drugs. These raids have killed at least 32 people and drawn angry reactions from some South American leaders."
"Another survivor of the same strike was sent to his native Colombia, where Armando Benedetti, the interior minister, said he had arrived with brain trauma, sedated, drugged, breathing with a ventilator. Authorities there said he would face prosecution. Trump on Saturday bragged about destroying the vessel and labeled the men on board terrorists. In a social media post, he claimed the submarine was loaded with fentanyl and other drugs."
An Ecuadorian man who survived a US strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submarine was released after prosecutors found no evidence he committed a crime. The United States deployed warships to the Caribbean off Venezuela since August, targeting vessels US authorities said were carrying drugs, and those raids have killed at least 32 people. US authorities repatriated the Ecuadorian survivor; another survivor was sent to Colombia with brain trauma and will face prosecution. Donald Trump described the vessel as a very large drug-carrying submarine and said it was loaded with fentanyl and other drugs.
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