Cur­tis Ward

Fol­low­ing is an opin­ion on the on­go­ing US-Venezuela ten­sions, as it re­lates to T&T’s stance, pub­lished in yes­ter­day’s edi­tion of the Ja­maica Ob­serv­er.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar switched from ob­fus­ca­tions and de­nials to ad­mis­sion of re­al­i­ty – her Gov­ern­ment un­re­served­ly sided with pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s US mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion against Venezuela to ef­fect regime change; re­mov­ing Nicolás Maduro from pow­er and re­plac­ing him with a Wash­ing­ton-friend­ly gov­ern­ment in Cara­cas – a gov­ern­ment that would give the US un­fet­tered ac­cess to the coun­try’s vast oil re­sources and a geopo­lit­i­cal and se­cu­ri­ty al­ly strate­gi­cal­ly sit­u­at­ed in South Amer­i­ca to ad­vance US hemi­spher­ic hege­mo­ny.