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Wife claims US strike killed Colombian on fishing trip
Updated on: October 22, 2025 / 7:16 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
Alejandro Carranza's loved ones say he left home on Colombia's Caribbean coast to fish in open waters. Days later, he was dead — one of at least 32 alleged drug traffickers killed in U.S. military strikes.
For his wife Katerine Hernandez, the 40-year-old was "a good man" devoted to fishing.
"Why did they just take his life like that?" she asked during an interview Monday with AFP.
She denied he had any link to drug trafficking ...
"The Colombian boat was adrift with a distress signal, its engine raised," Petro wrote Saturday on X. "He had no ties to drug trafficking. His daily activity was fishing" ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colombian-killed-us-strike-fisherman-wife-says/
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