Venezuela’s Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has called Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a “war­mon­ger”, ac­cus­ing her of pro­vok­ing protests and march­es across Venezuela in re­cent days. He claims this un­rest stems from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sup­port for US mil­i­tary ac­tions in the Caribbean.

“Venezuela is over­flow­ing … with the pa­tri­ot­ic march­es that be­gan through­out the east­ern part of the coun­try be­cause they or­gan­ised them­selves in Mon­a­gas, Delta Amacuro, An­zoátegui, Su­cre and Nue­va Es­par­ta. They or­gan­ised them­selves on Mon­day, Tues­day, Wednes­day and Thurs­day against the threat of mil­i­tary ex­er­cis­es called by the ir­re­spon­si­ble and war­mon­ger­ing prime min­is­ter, who is de­ter­mined to de­stroy the his­tor­i­cal bonds of broth­er­hood, co­op­er­a­tion and peace be­tween T&T and Venezuela,” he said.

He made these com­ments on Mon­day night on his week­ly pro­gramme “Con Maduro”.