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Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said Trinidad and To­ba­go played no role in any Unit­ed States mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in Venezuela, fol­low­ing claims by US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump that the ac­tion led to the cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

The Unit­ed States launched a se­ries of large-scale mil­i­tary strikes on Venezuela in the ear­ly hours of to­day, Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 3, 2026, mark­ing a ma­jor es­ca­la­tion in ten­sions be­tween the two coun­tries.

Trump an­nounced that Maduro and his wife, Cil­ia Flo­res, were cap­tured dur­ing the op­er­a­tion and flown out of Venezuela.