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struggle4progress

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Sat Nov 22, 2025, 10:27 PM Nov 2025

Family of missing Colombian seeks answers

1 day ago
Ione Wells

.... "He was a kind man, a good person, a friend. A good father, uncle, son. He was a cheerful person. He loved his work and his fishing."

Alejandro Carranza said goodbye to his family early in the morning on 14 September, before going out on his boat as usual, his cousin Audenis Manjarres told state media. He left from La Guajira, a region in neighbouring Venezuela, he said.

The next day, US President Donald Trump announced that a US strike in international waters had targeted a vessel which had departed Venezuela, and that three people he described as "extraordinarily violent drug-trafficking cartels and narco-terrorists" were killed.

Ms Perez has not seen her uncle since. His five children are missing their dad, she says, and the family are still waiting anxiously for answers, not knowing if he was even on the boat hit in the strike ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgqlqjz30zxo

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