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Akash Sama­roo

Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Al­varo Sanchez Cordero, is hop­ing the Unit­ed States’ de­ploy­ment of naval ves­sels near Venezuela is noth­ing more than a show of force against his coun­try that will “die away” in a few days.

At a me­dia brief­ing yes­ter­day evening at the Venezue­lan Em­bassy in T&T, which sought to ad­dress the on­go­ing ten­sions be­tween the US and Venezuela, Am­bas­sador Cordero said, “I want to be hope­ful in the sense that this may be just an­oth­er show­ing of force against Venezuela, but hope­ful­ly it’s noth­ing more than that.”