The family of Alejandro Carranza Medina, a 42-year-old Colombian fisherman, has petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) with the complaint that alleges how Carranza's boat was bombed on 15 September 2025 by the US military 'without identification of the individuals aboard' and that he was 'unlawfully killed'.
Filed by human-rights lawyer Dan Kovalik, the complaint names Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense, as the responsible for the incident. It notes that Hegseth publicly authorised a wave of strikes on vessels alleged to carry narcotics, yet admitted that target identification was often unclear.
