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In the fishing village of Icacos in Cedros, where Venezuela is just seven miles away, residents and fishermen fear for their safety and livelihoods amid tensions between the two countries.
Last week, the Venezuelan Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello alleged on his programme Con El Mazo Dando that a Trinidadian national, who he named “Guis Kendell Jarome”, had been captured while travelling to Venezuela with a group labelled “terrorists” in an attempt to destabilise their government.
This triggered Persad-Bissessar to warn Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a day later to stay out of T&T’s waters or they would be met with deadly force.
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