Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is fac­ing mount­ing crit­i­cism at home and abroad, af­ter her strong en­dorse­ment of Tues­day’s US mil­i­tary strike on an al­leged Venezue­lan drug ves­sel that killed 11 mem­bers of the Tren de Aragua car­tel. And she is now be­ing urged to watch her tone on the on­go­ing US ac­tion in the Caribbean.

How­ev­er, Per­sad-Bisses­sar is dou­bling down on her call to the US to “kill them all vi­o­lent­ly, say­ing she has T&T cit­i­zens at heart in the mat­ter.

Af­ter US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio con­firmed the strike on Tues­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she had no sym­pa­thy for drug traf­fick­ers, not­ing ‘the slaugh­ter of our peo­ple is fu­elled by evil car­tel traf­fick­ers.”