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Hours after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar distanced Trinidad and Tobago from the United States’ military operation in Venezuela on Saturday—which resulted in the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife—a group of civil society activists gathered outside the Venezuelan Embassy in Port-of-Spain yesterday, accusing the PM of being complicit in the attack.
The protesters, who have been vocal in opposing US military involvement in the region, said the Government failed to uphold regional solidarity and the Caribbean’s designation as a zone of peace.
“When regional solidarity was required, we chose proximity to empire. When Caricom asserted the Caribbean as a zone of peace, we undermined it. When sovereignty was under threat, we offered access, legitimacy, and silence,” social activist Abeo Jackson said.
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