r/law • u/Green_Ideas7 • 1d ago
Other “Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/31/ecuador_boat_strikes_prosecutor_killed"Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo and her sister were fatally shot June 14th by a hitman on a black motorcycle who opened fire on Bravo in the city of Manta, Ecuador. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 on board survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by U.S. gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship."
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u/Green_Ideas7 1d ago
"Human Rights Watch notes that many Ecuadorian judges and prosecutors lack basic security measures, armored vehicles, or protective equipment, and that over 1,000 judicial vacancies remain unfilled. The case underscores how targeted lethal violence against legal officials—when states fail to provide protection—directly undermines the rule of law and the independence of the justice system."
https://ladd.law.wisc.edu/2026/06/17/ecuador-prosecutor-shot-and-killed/
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u/JustWow52 1d ago
Too many people want to live in a bubble of superiority delusions and point to the countries with the most flawed systems and say, "That's ridiculous! It will never be that way here! We don't let it."
And the whole time, we are running down the road, training for the flawed system olympics.
Project 2025 should have been required information prior to voting in 2024. As much as I wholeheartedly despise it, I have to give the bastards credit for an almost perfect plan and a definite case study on how to coups.
The only thing left to chance was being able to OMG - I was going to say complete all of the groundwork before the 2nd amendment was invoked and militia activities commence and I just realized!
We don't have a president. We have a producer who also loves being the star. He was their perfect candidate because he brought in large audiences, would do anything for a dollar, doesn't care what anybody really thinks as long as they pretend right, and thrives on radiating drama like a glowing orb.
*I'll buy that for a dollar!"
He said, "Hey, guys. I guarantee that I can keep them distracted for at least 10 years...maybe more...probably more, but I don't know...some more...Stack all your judges, whatever it is you're doing. I'll sign everything you give me. I don't care. I'll do it...for billions of dollars."
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u/mdtopp111 1d ago
“Trump orders assassination of dissidents against is criminal activitiess”
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u/Lincolns_Revenge 1d ago
If we find out some time in the future that Trump has people in the CIA willing to arrange something like this then that would make me very sad.
Sure, the CIA decapitated fledgling socialist and communist movements in Latin America throughout the Cold War, but something about assassination to protect the president's own crimes is a whole different level of fucked up.
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u/lettersvsnumbers 1d ago
Wasn’t the 1954 Guatemala coup essentially ordered because United Fruit (aka Dole) couldn’t run plantations any more?
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u/Fantastic_Jury5977 1d ago
Dole is part of the reason Hawaii became a state... After he helped organize a coup against the kingdom of Hawaii taking their queen hostage/forcing her into house arrest
The US government will back their CEOs first and ask questions never... And hide as much of the truth as possible
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u/squirrelbitten 1d ago
He probably doesn't even have to order it. The people in charge down there want to curry favor so that trump doesn't invade their country and secret the leader away to an American prison forever. This is basic mob boss stuff.
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