In May 2014, the execution of Dana Seetahal shocked Trinidad and Tobago and intensified fears about the country’s soaring homicide rate. Murders have grown from fewer than 100 per year in the late 1990s to more than 400 annually, driven largely by territorial gang warfare inside Port of Spain’s most impoverished neighborhoods. These gangs battle over small blocks and government-funded social programs that were meant to uplift the poor but instead became sources of conflict and patronage. At the same time, Trinidad’s strategic location has made it a key transit point for cocaine moving from South America to Africa and North America. Critics argue that powerful figures — the so-called “big fish” — profit from the drug trade and maintain influence through corruption and violence. The result is a country where community members live between fear and survival, and justice itself becomes a dangerous pursuit.