‘Kill them all’: Trinidad PM supports US military strike in southern Caribbean

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has expressed strong support for the United States’ military strike on a drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela, saying she has “no sympathy for traffickers” and that the US military should “kill them all violently.”

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. carried out the strike in the southern Caribbean against a vessel tied to the Tren de Aragua cartel.

“When you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally, shot a boat — a drug-carrying boat,” Trump told reporters during an unrelated Oval Office event, adding there were “a lot of drugs” on the vessel.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the operation on X as a lethal strike against a vessel operated by a “designated narco-terrorist organization” that had departed from Venezuela. Trump said 11 people were killed in “international waters.”

“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.