律师称渔民“失去生计”，但马尔科·鲁比奥坚持美国仍愿“必要时炸毁船只”。当美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥在基多接受厄瓜多尔总统授勋，表彰其“为促进地区和平做出贡献”时，10名厄瓜多尔渔民因渔船被美军炸毁而在东太平洋漂流。
Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’ While the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, was being decorated in Quito by Ecuador’s president for “helping to promote peace in the region”, 10 Ecuadorian fishers whose boat had been blown up by US forces were adrift in the eastern Pacific.
9月8日，即鲁比奥抵达前一天，一艘美国巡逻舰在厄瓜多尔附近的国际水域拦截了渔船“唐·鲁福号”。
On 8 September, a day before Rubio arrived, a US patrol vessel intercepted the fishing boat Don Rufo in international waters near Ecuador.