TRINIDAD — The U.S. Navy's recent strikes on Venezuelan drug-running boats have rattled nerves across the Caribbean, leaving the small island nation of Trinidad and Tobago caught in the middle of rising regional tensions.

Over the past month, the United States has stepped up operations against Venezuelan smuggling networks in the Caribbean. Several fast boats suspected of trafficking drugs were destroyed in international waters. But for fishermen in Trinidad — only seven miles from Venezuela — those strikes felt far too close for comfort.

Here at the Gulf of Paria, we observed the closest point that you can get in Trinidad to Venezuela. CBN News traveled in a boat near a route that smugglers take if they're bringing drugs or people across to Trinidad. There's now a heavy presence of the

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