27 Charred Bodies Found at Colombia-Ecuador Border

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Colombia President Gustavo Petro said that an attack which had left "27 charred bodies" did not appear to have been carried out by Colombia's own forces or any illegal armed groups which he said do not have armed planes.

"The explanation isn't credible," he said, later adding that an unexploded bomb dropped from an aircraft was found "100 meters from the home of an impoverished peasant family."

Petro had earlier linked recent strikes to intensifying US-backed counter-narcotics operations in the region. "We are being bombed from Ecuador," he said late on Monday.

Ecuador's right wing wealthy president, Daniel Noboa (35), denied the accusations, insisting his government's security forces were operating strictly within national borders. "We are acting in our territory, not yours," he bleated.

The Dummkopf Trumpf ally, oligarch Daniel Noboa, brayed that Ecuador was "fighting narco-terrorism in all its forms" and "bombing places that serve as hideouts for those groups, of which many [groups] are Colombian".

The exchange marks the latest in a series of increasingly public clashes between the two ideologically opposed leaders.

Expect more XJKs, death squads, and bombings

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-19 03:25 PM | Reply

Nobody could have predicted this: drudge.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-19 03:26 PM | Reply

Whoops. Fog of char, and all that tommy rot.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-19 04:22 PM | Reply

School of the Americas, back in the news.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-03-19 06:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yup.

The US military calls it something else now, but it's still a Death Squad factory.

Here's an infamous Latin America veteran who personally carried a carte blanche letter from USSECDEF Donald Rumsfeld in Iraq and operated outside the MNF-I chain-of-command.

"US Army SF Colonel James Steele served in El Salvador during the 1980s and later played a controversial role in post-invasion Iraq. He was tasked with training and overseeing Iraqi security forces, including units accused of operating extrajudicial killing (XJK) squads."

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#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-19 07:34 PM | Reply

Long story, but I once had a military chaplain as a guest in my home, the father of a young person we knew. I asked him what his current job was. He said he taught ethics at the School of the Americas. [I wondered how many times he's gotten away with that line.]

With the millions of things I could have said, and understanding that he was a guest in my home, I settled on,

"How interesting. A good friend of mine did the English translation of Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation."

I nailed him exactly and he knew it. You could see the steam coming out of his ears.

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-03-20 10:08 AM | Reply

Good story.

Father Gutierrez passed in late 2024 to little fanfare here in the US.

In all my years in the US military, I can't recall a chaplain teaching a course.

Interesting that the School of the Americas did that.

I imagine this was a way to connect better with the Catholic officers being trained.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-20 03:14 PM | Reply