RawStory reports that 16 Ecuadorian fishermen plan to sue the Trump administration on 16 November 2026 in federal court in western Pennsylvania, seeking unspecified damages over a March 2026 drone strike that sank their boat during Operation Southern Spear, the boat-strike campaign launched in late 2025. The fishermen say U.S. personnel abducted, burned, bound, and jailed them in El Salvador for weeks, that they never trafficked drugs, and attorney Dan Kovalik calls the episode catastrophic, while Southern Command denied involvement and a Defense Department spokesperson declined to comment.