Venezuelan minister for the Interior, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, on the podcast Sin truco ni maña. Photo: Con El Mazo Dando.
The Vice President for Policy, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, lamented the belligerent stance of Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in facilitating the use of her country’s territory by the US and its military apparatus to attack Venezuela.
“We hear this woman from Trinidad, who is still drunk on alcohol, allowing Trinidad to be used against Venezuela,” he said in La Guaira state, where he inaugurated the Police Coordination Center of the Bolivarian National Police.
The minister for Interior, Justice, and Peace also emphasized that, in the face of this hostile posture toward Venezuela, any attack on Venezuelan territory would be met with a forceful response.
“We have always lived in peace, but if Trinidad lends its territory to attack Venezuela, we must respond with maximum Popular-Military-Police Fusion,” he concluded.
In September, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar voiced support for the deadly US strikes on boats in the Caribbean, saying the US should “kill them all violently.” She also ordered her military to use “lethal force” against any vessel arriving from Venezuela. The following month, the US Navy destroyer USS Gravelydocked in Trinidad and Tobago to take part in military drills.
Trinidadian labor activist and coordinator of the Movement for Social Justice, David Abdulah, said in an October interview that Persad-Bissessar “has long aligned herself with Washington’s position on Venezuela.” He noted that she had previously declared open support for Juan Guaidó and called for sanctions against Venezuela. Abdulah added that “many right-wing or pro-Washington governments exist across Latin America and the Caribbean” and stressed that “silence is not an option” when such governments advance US interests in the region.
