Venezuelan fishermen in fear after US strikes on boats in the Caribbean
51 minutes ago Share Save Gustavo Ocando Alex Reporting from Maracaibo, Venezuela for BBC News Mundo Share Save
Gustavo Ocando Alex Wilder Fernaฬndez is a young fisherman in the west of Venezuela who is concerned by the US military presence in the Caribbean
Wilder Fernรกndez has caught four good-sized fish in the murky waters of a small bay north of Lake Maracaibo. The contents of his net will serve as dinner for his small team before they set out to go fishing again in the evening. But this daily task is a job he has recently become scared of doing. After 13 years as a fisherman, Mr Fernรกndez confesses that he now fears his job could turn lethal. He is afraid he could die in these waters not at the hands of a night-time attacker - a threat fishermen like him encountered in the past - but rather, killed in a strike launched by a foreign power. "It's crazy, man," he says of the deployment of US warships, fighter jets, a submarine and thousands of
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