Venezuelan minister for the Interior, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, on the podcast Sin truco ni maĂąa. Photo: Con El Mazo Dando.
The Vice President for Policy, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello RondĂłn, lamented the belligerent stance of Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in facilitating the use of her countryâs territory by the US and its military apparatus to attack Venezuela.
âWe hear this woman from Trinidad, who is still drunk on alcohol, allowing Trinidad to be used against Venezuela,â 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.
âWe have always lived in peace, but if Trinidad lends its territory to attack Venezuela, we must respond with maximum Popular-Military-Police Fusion,â he concluded.
In September, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar voiced support for the deadly US strikes on boats in the Caribbean, saying the US should âkill them all violently.â She also ordered her military to use âlethal forceâ against any vessel arriving from Venezuela. The following month, the US Navy destroyer USS Gravely docked 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 âhas long aligned herself with Washingtonâs position on Venezuela.â He noted that she had previously declared open support for Juan GuaidĂł and called for sanctions against Venezuela. Abdulah added that âmany right-wing or pro-Washington governments exist across Latin America and the Caribbeanâ and stressed that âsilence is not an optionâ when such governments advance US interests in the region.
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