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Cumaná, Venezuela – 12 September 2025
1. A boat being towed by another boat, the Paria Peninsula can be seen at the distance
2. Boy fishing
3. Fishermen
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++VIDEO CALL – QUALITY AS INCOMING++
London – 18 September 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House:
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 AND 8++
“For reasons of poverty, desperation, and the lure of money, people get caught up in the drug trade. That doesn’t mean necessarily that they are ‘Tren de Aragua’ or ‘Cartel de los Soles’. What it means is that there’s a lot of money and that they’re living on the margins. And so in the case of fisher people off the coast of Venezuela, they’re operating small boats. It’s a target of opportunity for the real heads of narcotics traffickers to be able to say, look, we’ll give you some money and please move this product while you’re out there doing your trade, which is fishing.”
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Cumaná, Venezuela – 15 September 2025
5. A boat filled with fish as a man organizes them
6. Man setting trays with fish in ice
7. Fisherman and merchants counting and exchanging Bolivar bills
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Morro de Puerto Santo, Venezuela – 13 September 2025
8. Boats seen from a distance in the coastline of El Morro de Puerto Santo
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++VIDEO CALL – QUALITY AS INCOMING++
London – 18 September 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House:
++COVERED BY SHOTS 10 TO 17++
“Which, again, raises the question of Trump’s policy of basically shoot first, ask questions later. These boats we’ve seen, maybe they were drug traffickers, maybe they weren’t. Maybe they’re just innocent fishermen. We don’t know. But it indicates that there are citizens who are not necessarily capos in any sort of mafia sense but are getting caught in this crossfire.”
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Ceiba, Puerto Rico – 02 September 2025
10. U.S. military personnel
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Ceiba, Puerto Rico – 09 September 2025
11. Unmanned aircraft vehicle at the José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba
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Ceiba, Puerto Rico – 14 September 2025
12. U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II fighter jet at the tarmac of José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba
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Cumaná, Venezuela – 15 September 2025
13. Sank boat
14. Port, fishermen
15. Fishermen trading
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Güiria, Venezuela – 13 September 2025
16. Graffiti on a wall
17. Street scene, cars, sunset
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s Paria peninsula, in Sucre state, the country’s far eastern coast, the region which centuries fisheries are crippled, while drug money offers an alternative to subsist.
The peninsula has captivated people for centuries. Turquoise shallows kiss the shore while deep sapphire seas marry clear skies on the horizon.
Nowadays the vistas remain just as striking but the industry and development of the region is only a shadow of what it once was.
Fishermen say their trade no longer sustains them, forcing many to live with hunger or look elsewhere for survival.
Across the Peninsula, in Morro de Puerto Santo and Guaca cities, fisher people complain that two days at sea barely earns them a handful of dollars.
As the U.S. continues to carry out strikes on boats in the Caribbean, claiming they carry gang members and drugs from Venezuela, everyone is speculating about it.
People wonder who died and whether their deaths are part of a plan to topple Maduro.
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