Recently in the afternoon, Kenrick Modie ended the separation of his fishing net in a quiet Caribbean village.

As he slid in a hanging net in his home overlooking the sea, he worried that his life and life could erase the US military strike.

Modie lives in the Caribbean twin state of Trinidad and Tobago, which is now entangled in the geopolitical face between the United States and Venezuela, only 11 miles away.

US President Trump “gives instructions to shoot and murder of people,” Modie said of recent American military couples aimed at doubt about drug drugs while collecting his military presence in the region. “What could we do? We are just a small point.”

In recent weeks, the United States has taken at least four blows to alleged drug transport ships in the waters outside Venezuela, and at least two vessels come from Venezuela. Defense Minister Peta Hegsetth announced the fourth strike On Friday, the “four male narcotics” were killed, but not offering other details about who they were.

Mr. Trump Stated in the Congress Notification He watched CBS News that they were now in a “armed conflict” with cartel cartels in the Caribbean, claiming that they were trying to bring a “deadly poison” to the US coasts.

Meanwhile, Venezuela has accused the US Military accumulation and aggression, stating President Nicolás Madur to set up an army and civilians in a country who are willing to take over weapons on high equipment.

Stuck in the middle are Trinidad and Tobago, a nation with a fishing industry with a million dollars that employs thousands of fishermen who threw their nets almost daily to maintain themselves and their families.

“If we die, we die”

Trinidad and Prime Minister Tobaga Kamla spoils He said that the drugs for drugs contributed to pain and suffering in her country, and she urged now to “kill them all violently.”

She also said she was willing to the American approach to Trinidad and Tobaga, if necessary so that the Americans could defend Guyana from the neighboring Venezuela, who claimed two -thirds of Guyana to be her own.

Maduro said that the willingness of Persad-Bissessar was to approve such an approach like the proclamation of war against Venezuela. The Venecuelan president invited to return to good relations with his neighbor on the Caribbean, even when Trinidad and Tobaga rules that there is no bad blood between the countries.

While those who trade in words and military commanders increase their hold, dozens of fishermen in Trinidad and Tobag believe that their lives are in danger, given that American blows and escalation of tension with Venezuel are underway.

“If we die, we die, that’s how this life is,” Modie said.

He is afraid of being killed by an American military shot while he is fishing because he believes his ship could go wrong for a drug smuggling ship. Modie said he had not seen significant evidence that those killed in American strikes were really transporting drugs. He also worries about the authorities killing innocent fishermen and falsely labeled as narcotics, and dead people are unable to cleanse their names.

Fishing in fear

Only seven miles separate Trinidad and Venezuela at the nearest point. Venezuela is visible from the village of Icacos, located on Trinidad’s southwestern counsel.

Driving around Icacos and the neighboring village of Cedros, dozens of boats scattered along the coast show that these communities depend a lot on fishing.

Fishermen in these two villages say they are already threatened by pirates, and military buildings at sea now add another threat.

Looking at three other fishermen to catch the day in a catch in the fishing complex of Cedros, Kamal Bikeran said his crew remains in shallow waters now and does not go as far as before, because of the tension that included three countries.

“They have come there now, and the Venecuelan army says they are more present, so you have to be careful,” Bikeran said. “At any time, outside, you could get out.”

Forced to fish in shallow waters, cyclists and other fishermen said that increased regional tension has dried up to life because they now invest less fish.

Mr. Trump gave fishermen a reason to worry after First US military strike 2 Septemberwhich he said was killed by 11 suspicious drugstores.

“The shipping of the ship is significantly reduced,” Mr. Trump said in early September. “I don’t even know about fishermen. They can say,” I’m not going to the ship. “

The President repeated this in the notice on Sunday at an event that celebrates 250 years of the US Navy In Norfolk, Virginia, saying, “We are so good at not having boats. In fact, not even fishing ships. No one wants to get into the water anymore.”

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly at the end of September, the Caribbean leaders called the region as a zone of peace.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley urged dialogue to avoid the war between the US -A Venezuela. Prime Minister of St. Vincent and Grenadin, Ralph Gonsalves, described the foreign militarization of water near Venezuela as “extremely worrying.”

Fishing in fear has become a new reality, said Shyam Hajarie, who has been a fisherman for over 40 years. Originally from Cedros, like others, it depends on his daily catch to support his family. He is not sure if the caribbean military accumulation will soon affect fish prices on the market.

“Just praying that everything succeeds with this situation with Venezuel and now,” he said. “To make peace, not war.”