The US has a unique solution to this sort of problem, one we discovered a century ago called “Torpedoes”. These “Torpedoes” have the ability to move, all by themselves, towards a target and can typically destroy it.
The one exception is large, heavily armored ships which may take an “assload” of firepower to sink. For all intents and purposes we can assume with a fair degree of certainty that said Columbian navy vessels do not possess the armor to survive more than a single spitwad hit from an American naval vessel, up to and including the Rowboat Class.
/Sarcasm
If you didn’t get it from my post, I think we should have sent one of our own submarines after it and sunk it.