Standing by the calm fishing bay of Taganga on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, Lizbeth Perez struggles to hide her fear as she recalls the last time she spoke with her uncle in September. “He was kind, cheerful, and hard-working a devoted father, son, and fisherman,” she said.
Her uncle, Alejandro Carranza, left home early on September 14 for what seemed like a routine fishing trip, his cousin Audenis Manjarres told local media. He departed from La Guajira, a coastal region near the Venezuelan border.
A day later, then US President Donald Trump announced that an American military strike in international waters had destroyed a vessel that had sailed from Venezuela, killing three people described as members of “violent drug-trafficking cartels and narco-terrorists.”
Since that day, Carranza’s family has been living in uncertainty. They have not received confirmation of his fate or whether he was aboard the vessel targeted in the attack. Perez says his five children wait in anguish for answers. “We just don’t know what happened,” she said softly. “All we have are the reports on the news.
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