PSUV Secretary General Diosdado Cabello during a press conference on November 3, 2025. Photo: Con el Mazo Dando.
On Monday, the secretary general of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, stated that the government of Trinidad and Tobago has assumed “a position of being a beachhead against our country.”
During PSUV’s weekly press conference, Cabello said that the party supports the national government’s decisions “today, tomorrow, and always.”
“The government of Trinidad, sadly for the people of Trinidad and Tobago, has taken a position of being an adversary against our country. Historically, Trinidad and Tobago has had excellent relations with Venezuela… Now, we have been attacked by Trinidad and Tobago through the words and actions of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who has disregarded our history of good relations,” he added.
Furthermore, Cabello said that all of this is linked to “who can be blackmailed and who cannot,” making clear that in the Venezuelan case, “No one can blackmail us.”
“When a leader like that of Trinidad and Tobago allows herself to be blackmailed, it is because she has something to hide. Ask who close to her is detained in the US, find out… who they are and what they are accused of. That is when you will start to understand many things,” he said.
He emphasized that what has become an act of aggression against Venezuela “will be turned against them” and that Venezuela, in its sovereign capacity, “has taken the appropriate decisions.” He noted that President Nicolás Maduro has ordered an immediate review of all gas agreements with Trinidad and Tobago.
Persad-Bissessar “fell into the trap because the Guyanese government is the one behind it,” Cabello noted, urging the Trinidadian president to focus on governing her own country instead of meddling in Venezuela’s affairs, “attacking a country by allowing military exercises right next to our shores, which was undoubtedly a provocation against us. A provocation we did not fall for.”
Cabello reiterated that Venezuela remains at peace today, and that “the ruler of Trinidad and Tobago, with her provocations, will not derail us from the train of peace.”
“Venezuela, as always, reserves the right to take appropriate action. We see what they do with the Venezuelans who are there. We have many Trinidadians here and we do not do anything bad to them,” he noted, adding that people from Trinidad and Tobago arrive in Sucre state every day to “buy Venezuelan products.”
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The Trinidadian prime minister has launched a xenophobic anti-Venezuelan campaign despite the country joining the Lima Group’s calls several years ago, inviting Venezuelans to migrate. Days ago, she announced the deportation of 250 Venezuelan migrants and sent them to detention centers.
On October 27, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil stated that Venezuela had clearly informed Trinidad and Tobago about a false flag operation by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that included attacking a US military vessel on that island and then blaming Caracas.
(Últimas Noticias) by María Eugenia Rodríguez with Orinoco Tribune content
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