Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says the Gov­ern­ment is “un­both­ered” by pro-Venezue­lan sup­port­ers who marched in Cara­cas against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia dur­ing a vis­it to Point Lisas yes­ter­day, Sobers said the ad­min­is­tra­tion is equal­ly un­fazed by Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro’s call for cit­i­zens of T&T to unite with Venezuela for “peace,” and by the Venezue­lan Na­tion­al As­sem­bly’s de­c­la­ra­tion of Per­sad-Bisses­sar as per­sona non gra­ta.

Sobers said the Prime Min­is­ter’s po­si­tion re­mains clear—that the on­go­ing Unit­ed States mil­i­tary in­ter­ven­tion in the Caribbean is aimed at com­bat­ing nar­co-traf­fick­ing and transna­tion­al crime, not threat­en­ing any na­tion’s sov­er­eign­ty.