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Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is stress­ing that her Gov­ern­ment has no ev­i­dence to sug­gest that the Unit­ed States de­clared clam­p­down on nar­co-ter­ror­ists in the re­gion is a façade to de­pose Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro.

The claim has been prof­fered by both Venezuela and Cu­ba in re­cent days as US war­ships con­tin­ue their jour­ney to the Caribbean to wage a “war on drugs.” The two coun­tries claimed that the US has a his­to­ry of cre­at­ing false nar­ra­tives to in­ter­fere in the af­fairs of sov­er­eign states.