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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.