Pleas of surviving relatives: The family of Alejandro Carranza has said about his death:
They insist Alejandro was a fisherman, not a drug trafficker — his “daily activity was fishing.”
His wife, Katerine Hernández, described him as “a good man.” She denied that the boat had anything to do with drugs.
The family says the boat had engine trouble and was adrift — with a distress signal — when it was struck
They view the strike as an unjustified attack: in their complaint filed with Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), they accuse the U.S. government of “murder” and of ordering “extrajudicial killings.”
The family says his death left them without their main breadwinner, and that they’ve been threatened since speaking out.
His wife has asked publicly:
“Why did they take his life like that? Fishermen have the right to live. Why didn’t they just detain them?”