“There is a killer prowling the Caribbean,” Samuel Moncada said. “People from different countries…are suffering the effects of these massacres.” AP’s Anselm Gibbs and Dánica Coto write about Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Moncada, who condemned a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people. This occurred AFTER the UN had “urged restraint as US strikes in southern Caribbean escalate tensions with Venezuela” (UN News).
Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N., Samuel Moncada, condemned on Thursday a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.”
He called on the U.N. Security Council to investigate what he called a “series of assassinations,” noting there have been five lethal attacks and 27 reported deaths since the strikes in the Caribbean began in September, targeting what U.S. officials say are suspected drug traffickers.
Among those believed to be killed in the latest strike that occurred Tuesday are two fishermen from Trinidad and Tobago, whom Moncada referenced in his speech.
As Moncada spoke at the U.N. on Thursday, people in the sleepy fishing town of Las Cuevas in northern Trinidad mourned the disappearance of Chad Joseph. His relatives believe he was killed in the strike, although they offered no other evidence that he was aboard the boat that was hit. “People are crying. Why is Donald Trump destroying families?” Afisha Clement, Joseph’s cousin, told The Associated Press. She said Joseph had moved to Venezuela six months ago and was working on farms in hopes of earning more money. [. . .]
“There is a killer prowling the Caribbean,” Moncada said. “People from different countries…are suffering the effects of these massacres.”
Only a couple of miles separate Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago at their closest point, and the ongoing military strikes have spooked fishermen in the twin-island nation.
“There is no justification at all,” Moncada said. “They are fabricating a war.” [. . .]
For full article and video, see https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-trinidad-us-strikes-fishermen-killed-5
Also see https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-asks-un-security-council-say-us-strikes-illegal-2025-10-16/ and https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166081
[Image above, screenshot from AP Video/Anselm Gibbs: Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N., Samuel Moncada, condemned on Thursday a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people.]
“There is a killer prowling the Caribbean,” Samuel Moncada said. “People from different countries…are suffering the effects of these massacres.” AP’s Anselm Gibbs and Dánica Coto write about Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Moncada, who condemned a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people. This occurred
