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AMID the heightened US military presence in the southern Caribbean and a US “lethal strike” on September 2 that allegedly killed 11 people on a boat, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, showed no sympathy for the alleged members of the Venezuela-based transnational criminal organisation, Tren de Aragua (TDA).

“The slaughter of our people is fuelled by evil cartel traffickers. The pain and suffering the cartels have inflicted on our nation is immense. I have no sympathy for traffickers, the US military should kill them all violently,” Persad-Bissessar said in a statement later on September 2.

“The restriction of illegal guns, drugs and human trafficking will decrease the violence in the region and in particular our country.”