Rob Schmitz
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He told me that his daughter was dating one of the young men who was believed killed in one of these strikes.
And he says he was just a fisherman.
I asked him what he would tell President Trump if he could talk to him.
Yeah, I mean, these guys, they've spent their whole lives in the water.
They know what drug boats look like.
And he says some of the videos released by the U.S.
of the strikes, they don't look like drug boats.
He says those boats don't carry more than three people.
They have bigger engines.
And he says what scares him is that sometimes they make trips with medicine, food, and toiletries to Venezuela.
And when you pack all that up, the packages can look the same as drugs.
You know, I spoke to the family of Chad Joseph.
He's 26 and his family says he's a fisherman who went to Venezuela for work about six months ago.
He had told his family he was coming back to Trinidad on the same day a U.S.
strike happened.
And since then, they've had no contact with him.
I spoke to his grandma.
who says she hopes that one day the phone rings and it's him.
But in her heart, you know, she knows that he's very likely dead.
So much so that they're going to have a funeral service without a body on Wednesday.