Trinidad and Tobago is a nation with a multimillion-dollar fishing industry employing thousands of fishermen who cast their nets almost daily to sustain themselves and their families. Forced to fish in shallower waters for fear of being taken for drug-smuggling vessels, fishermen said the heightened tension is drying up their livelihoods, as they are now catching fewer fish.
Trump declared in a memo that the U.S. was in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels in the Caribbean, alleging they are trying to bring "deadly poison" to U.S. shores. And on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he had ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, the fourth since revelations that Trump told lawmakers he was treating drug traffickers as unlawful combatants.
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