'Trump is killing poor people': Carribean villagers blast deadly US strike

American military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea have been condemned by the mourning relatives of the deceased victims who said the administration of US President Donald Trump is killing "poor people." 

"Trump is killing poor people," family members of Chad "Charpo" Joseph and Rishi Samaroo from Las Cuevas, a fishing village in northern Trinidad, told media this week after their loved ones were killed in a US military strike in the Caribbean.

The two Trinidadian men were among the dozens who were targeted in a US airstrike for allegedly transporting drugs from Venezuela. Trump claims those killed in the attacks are "narcoterrorists."

The deceased Trinidadian men's relatives are demanding evidence to back up Trump's allegations that those who died in the strikes were trafficking drugs.

Family members and villagers have shown distrust in the Trump administration and said that their government had surrendered to them.

The Guardian interviewed Joseph’s cousin, La Toya, who insisted that everybody has the right to the protection of the law.

“Everybody has a right to due process and due process wasn’t given. It don’t look like we running under our government any more when it comes to the waters – that’s not Trinidad waters,” Toya said

Toya accused the Trump administration of making a decision to destroy the boats, not taking any prisoners alive for questioning.

Joseph's aunt, Lynette, said that no communication was received from Trinidadian authorities after Joseph's death.

Trump posted a video earlier this week showing the US military bombing another alleged Venezuela-linked drug boat, killing its six occupants.

Trump announces US military strike on Venezuelan vessel

President Donald Trump has announced that US military forces conducted a strike on a Venezuelan vessel en route to the United States, alleging it belonged to a drug cartel.

“Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday.

“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike.”

The strikes come as Trump seeks to mount pressure to topple the democratically elected government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

“Venezuela has done a couple of things very badly,” Trump said this week, hosting a White House lunch for right-wing populist Argentine President Javier Milei.

“Number one, we get drugs and all of that, but we get something in a way worse … What they do very well is they send their criminals into the United States, and they send [prison gang] Tren de Aragua … they send them in by the thousands, literally. And these are the worst of all. They emptied their prisons into the United States. They empty their mental institutions into the United States.”

US military airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean have left dozens of people killed so far. The strikes are carried out by the US authorities in the Caribbean. As per Trump officials, these strikes are important to keep narcotics from Venezuela away from America.

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