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Derek Achong

The longer the on­go­ing mil­i­tary ten­sion be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela con­tin­ues, the greater the po­ten­tial for T&T to be di­rect­ly af­fect­ed.

This was the view sug­gest­ed by econ­o­mist and for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Mar­i­ano Browne and Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) leader David Ab­du­lah as they both ex­pressed po­ten­tial con­cerns over the po­ten­tial neg­a­tive ef­fect of the still-brew­ing geopo­lit­i­cal im­passe be­tween the two coun­tries.