'Narcoterrorists' killed Indiscriminately by Trump in the Caribbean are Fishermen

Trump lies. He always does. 

He's also a killer. He kills without due process. 

He's also a coward. He is a member of the wealthy elite who dodged the Vietnam war.

And now that he promised his MAGA herd of morons he won't take the US into a war overseas, he is breaking his promise by waging war in the Caribbean, but an easy war for cowards consisting of shooting at innocent fishing boats, killing innocent fishermen, and lying about them being "narcoterrorists". 

Shouldn't Trump at least label as co-conspirator terrorists those US citizens who are accomplices of the drug traffickers because they buy, deal and consume illicit drugs? Fighting supply is fine. No one car argue about it. But to completely ignore the demand is criminal.

Why should innocent fishermen from the Caribbean be sacrificed so that Trump can protect his own drug-addicted white MAGA American population? 

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Wife of Colombian killed in US strike says life taken unjustly
AFP
Wed, October 22, 2025


The USS Gravely, sailing in the Red Sea in June 2024, is part of the small US armada deployed to the Caribbean (-) (-/DVIDS/AFP)

Alejandro Carranza's loved ones say he left home on Colombia's Caribbean coast to fish in open waters. Days later, he was dead -- one of 32 alleged drug traffickers killed in US military strikes.

From Santa Marta, northern Colombia, Carranza's family is questioning White House claims that he was carrying narcotics aboard a small vessel targeted last month.

For his wife Katerine Hernandez, the 40-year-old was "a good man" devoted to fishing.

"Why did they just take his life like that?" she asked during an interview Monday with AFP.

She denied he had any link to drug trafficking.

"The fishermen have the right to live. Why didn't they just detain them?"

Since the United States began bombing boats in the Caribbean in September, critics have accused Donald Trump's administration of carrying out extrajudicial executions.

The White House and Pentagon have produced NO evidence to back up their claims that those targeted were involved in trafficking.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, a critic of the US military presence in the Caribbean, has also claimed Carranza was innocent.

Petro said his crew suffered a mechanical failure at sea.

"The Colombian boat was adrift with a distress signal, its engine raised," Petro wrote Saturday on X. "He had no ties to drug trafficking. His daily activity was fishing."

However Colombian media have reported that Carranza had a criminal record for stealing weapons in collusion with gangs.

Prosecutors contacted by AFP refused to confirm or deny the reports.

The US government has released statements and images purporting to show strikes on at least seven boats allegedly carrying drugs, leaving 32 dead.

AFP has not been able to independently verify this toll.

- He stopped calling -

Before his last trip, Carranza told his father he was heading to a spot "with good fish."

Days passed without contact, until the family learned of the bombing on television.

"The days went by and he didn't call," Hernandez said.

The deadly strikes have sparked a diplomatic row between the United States and Colombia, historically close partners.

Petro condemned the attack as a violation of Colombian sovereignty and labeled it an "assassination," while Trump has lashed out his counterpart, calling him an "illegal drug dealer" and vowing to to halt all US economic aid to the country.

Friends interviewed by AFP also insisted Carranza was a fisherman.

"He went offshore to catch sierra, tuna, and snapper, which are found far out at this time of year," said Cesar Henriquez, who has known him since childhood.

"He always came back to Santa Marta, secured his boat, and went home. I never knew him to do anything bad," Henriquez told AFP.

A Colombian and an Ecuadoran are the only survivors so far of US attacks in the Caribbean.

The Colombian, repatriated in serious condition, will face trial as a "criminal" accused of drug trafficking, according to the government.

The Ecuadoran was released after authorities said he had no pending charges.

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...and now Trump's Supreme Court is deciding that illicit drug users can own guns. What a lovely America! Americans who buy illicit drugs from the narcoterrorists are not only off the hook for using illicit drugs, they can also own guns that may be used in the daily mass shootings that Americans celebrate as the "American way of life". 

What's good for the goose is apparently not good for the gander. 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony because he allegedly had a gun in his home and acknowledged being a regular pot user. The Justice Department appealed after a lower court largely struck down a law that bars people who use any illegal drugs from having guns.

Last year, a jury convicted Hunter Biden of violating the law, among other charges. His father, then-President Joe Biden, later pardoned him.

Arguments probably will take place early in 2026, with a decision likely by early summer.

The Republican administration favors Second Amendment rights, but government attorneys argued that this ban is a justifiable restriction.

They asked the court to reinstate a case against Ali Danial Hemani. His lawyers got the felony charge tossed out after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the blanket ban is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s expanded view of gun rights. The appellate judges found it could still be used against people accused of being high and armed at the same time, though.

Hemani's attorneys argue the broadly written law puts millions of people at risk of technical violations since at least 20% of Americans have tried pot, according to government health data. About half of states legalized recreational marijuana, but it's still illegal under federal law.

The Justice Department argues the law is valid when used against regular drug users because they pose a serious public safety risk. The government said the FBI found Hemani's gun and cocaine in a search of his home as they probed travel and communications allegedly linked to Iran. The gun charge was the only one filed, however, and his lawyers said the other allegations were irrelevant and were mentioned only to make him seem more dangerous.

The case marks another flashpoint in the application of the Supreme Court's new test for firearm restrictions. The conservative majority found in 2022 that the Second Amendment generally gives people the right to carry guns in public for self-defense and any firearm restrictions must have a strong grounding in the nation’s history.

The landmark 2022 ruling led to a cascade of challenges to firearm laws around the country, though the justices have since upheld a different federal law intended to protect victims of domestic violence by barring guns from people under restraining orders.