In Cedros, on Trinidad’s southern tip, fishermen launch into waters patrolled by U.S. warships, Venezuelan gunboats, and pirate skiffs. Only when Trinidad and Tobago’s Coast Guard appeared did the attackers retreat. A Coast Guard cutter can mean salvation—or suspicion. She announced she would not commit Coast Guard resources to search for bodies of presumed traffickers killed in a U.S. strike, pledging instead to deport 200 Venezuelan prisoners. Our Coast Guard resources will be used to protect our borders,” she said, calling for the “violent” elimination of traffickers, according to remarks reported by EFE.