Trinidad PM says CARICOM aligned with Maduro ‘narco’ gov’t as regional row deepens

A row among regional leaders over policy towards the United States and Venezuela deepened this evening with Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar accusing CARICOM of aligning itself with the “Maduro narco government” in Caracas.

She also cited threats over the years by Venezuela to invade Guyana which did not dissuade CARICOM from supporting the Nicolas Maduro administration in Caracas.

 

Persad-Bissessar’s statement on X was in response to one from Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne who was responding to the Trinidad PM’s claim that CARICOM was an unreliable partner to Trinidad among other things.

 

 

 

Persad-Bissessar’s statement follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

CARICOM has aligned itself with the Maduro narco government headed by a dictator who has imprisoned or killed thousands of Venezuelans who oppose him.

 

Trinidad and Tobago wants no part of that alignment, we don’t support dictatorship and drug trafficking and we don’t support CARICOM in their zone of peace fakery.

 

(Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister) Gaston (Browne) and Ronald Sanders should worry less about my comments and spend more time explaining to their citizens as to why their visas were restricted.

 

Venezuela has been threatening to invade Guyana for years and since last June they began making similar threats that Trinidad and Tobago is a part of Venezuela.

 

Yet CARICOM has chosen to support the maduro narco government through the fake zone of peace narrative which is clearly designed to get the American military to leave the Caribbean region and therefore enable Maduro to remain as dictator in Venezuela.

 

My priority is in the best interests of the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.