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LOCAL fishermen have nothing to fear after a US military strike on a Venezuelan drug boat on September 2. San Fernando Fishing Cooperative Society vice-president Clinton Lochan expressed this view on September 3.

On September 2, US President Donald Trump said US forces stationed in the southern Caribbean destroyed a vessel which he said had departed from Venezuela.

He said the boat was operated by the Tren de Aragua cartel and was carrying drugs bound for the US. On the same day, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the drugs on that boat could have been bound for Trinidad and Tobago or some other Caribbean country.