Trinidad and Tobago was in shock Thursday over the reported deaths of two local men in a US strike on a suspected drug boat, the latest of Venezuela’s neighbors to become sucked into Washington’s pressure campaign.

“Are we in Israel or in Afghanistan? This is the Caribbean; here is peace and love,” a fisherman in the Trinidadian village of Las Cuevas told AFP in a thick drawl after Tuesday’s strike on a boat allegedly ferrying drugs from Venezuela.

Police in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating reports that two citizens were among the six “narcoterrorists” killed in the operation announced by US President Donald Trump.

But Lenore Burnley, mother of 26-year-old fisherman Chad Joseph, told AFP people her family knew in Venezuela “told them he was on the boat.”

Local media reported that

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