VENEZUELA’S Ambassador to TT Alvaro Sanchez Cordero says the country will defend the Caribbean as a zone of peace against the US as half a dozen American warships station themselves in the territory for what US officials said are anti-drug trafficking operations.

Cordero was speaking during a solidarity meeting near the bust of Venezuela's founding father Simon Bolívar, on Harris Promenade, San Fernando, on August 30.

"We are positive by gathering on this Saturday morning we will basically show and send a message, not only to TT but the Caribbean and the world that we are intending, Venezuela is intending, to continue defending the Caribbean as a zone of peace as declared more than ten years ago by CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) in 2014."