Trinidad families decry US strike, demand justice | JQJO

Relatives in Las Cuevas, Trinidad, mourn Chad “Charpo” Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, believed among six people killed in a US airstrike on a boat allegedly trafficking drugs from Venezuela. At wakes, family accused Donald Trump of killing poor people and denying due process, and said Trinidad and Tobago’s leaders ceded sovereignty while offering no communication. Prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar avoided questions. With no bodies, a memorial mass is planned. Villagers say fishers are afraid to go to sea. Another Caribbean strike was reported, amid UN and rights groups’ claims of extrajudicial killings. Activists urged a Caribbean “zone of peace.”