Could they be towing it?

I just watched the video. The boat is a big panga maybe 36', with 4x200hp outboards and a stand-up center console. No cabin, small foredeck for dry-ish storage. It was planing, so not towing anything or the tow would be planing too.

The video was too blurry to do a headcount, but if they say 11 people, I have no reason to doubt it. 4 engines says transporter, not fishing. People or drugs. If they say it was surveilled loading bales (coke is pressed into kilo bricks, bricks packaged into bales liftable by one guy over the gunwhale), I have no reason to doubt that either.

Range- boats that size that make it to Central California have built in fuel tanks, max 200 gallons, so it's not going much further than the islands near Venezuela.

I don't believe anything the administration says. It's plausible it was a mixed load of migrants and drugs. They could have been any nationality, and now they're dead.

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