'Trump is killing poor people': Caribbean village mourns victim of US strike

[Jilly_in_VA]

Relatives of two men from Trinidad believed to have been killed in a US military strike on a boat in the Caribbean have accused Donald Trump of “killing poor people” without due process and are demanding justice.

Chad “Charpo” Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, from the fishing village of Las Cuevas in northern Trinidad, are thought to be among six people killed in a US airstrike on a boat allegedly transporting drugs from Venezuela.

Trump has described the six killed as “narcoterrorists”, claiming that “intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics”. But speaking to the Guardian at a wake for the two men, Joseph’s cousin La Toya, 42, said he was denied the basic right to due process and accused the Trinidad and Tobago government of giving up its sovereignty to the US.

“Everybody have a right to due process and due process wasn’t given. It don’t look like we running under our government no more when it comes to the waters – that’s not Trinidad waters,” she said, questioning why US officials decided to destroy the boat rather than detain and question its occupants.

At a wake for the two men late on Thursday, family and community members said they felt betrayed by their own government and at the mercy of a Trump administration that has been given unfettered access to their waters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/trump-caribbean-venezuela-trinidad-boat-strikes

Not even Venezuelans, let alone "narcoterrorists"

[Prairie Gates]

1. These aren't war crimes

They're just plain crimes. They're murders.

[Walleye]

3. Yes, we are not at war no one is attacking us or shooting at us

[PatSeg]

10. Well, not yet anyway

I get the feeling that he is just itching for his own war. Little children just love blowing things up.

[Walleye]

11. Yes, I agree. Not just that he has a blood lust. He obviously loves killing.

When he was a child, his father’s biggest compliment to a person was that they were a “killer”, he never got over that

[PatSeg]

12. He seems to thrive on violence and destruction

But he doesn't seem to like doing it personally; he doesn't appear to like blood or germs. As President, he can delegate it to others and just watch it on TV.

[Walleye]

2. He thinks calling everybody a terrorist will justify his murderous act. He got that from W. and Bibi

And how is a narco terrorist different from a regular terrorist

[D. Spaulding]

4. Of all the nefarious and anti constitutional things he's doing, and there are a lot,

this is absolutely the worst. And if this had happened in his first term, it would have been considered and epic crisis that no one would stop talking about.

[leftstreet]

5. DURec

[Blues Heron]

6. Trump is a murderer who thinks he's going to heaven.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

7. The "terrorism" is coming from inside the house--the White House.

[lapfog_1]

8. This is not how to end terrorists.

This is how to CREATE terrorists.

Just like sending people to Gitmo that someone somewhere accused of being a terrorist... if they were not terrorists before being tortured in Gitmo, they certainly would be coming out of Gitmo.

In this case, if your father was a poor fisherman in Trinidad killed by the US Navy in a missile attack for being on a boat in international waters... or your brother or your son... The chances are you are going to blame Americans and want, let's see what is Donny Dufus's favorite word these days - oh yeah... RETRIBUTION. Especially since "justice" isn't going to be coming anytime soon.

[chowder66]

9. Who ever is giving the orders and executing them should be held to account as well.

[Jilly_in_VA]

14. That would probably be Kegsbreath n/t

[electric_blue68]

13. Hedious actions. Those poor people, and their familes etc