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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar moved swiftly yesterday to distance Trinidad and Tobago from a United States military action in Venezuela that culminated in the capture of that country’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cillia Flores.
“Trinidad and Tobago is NOT a participant in any of these ongoing military operations. Trinidad and Tobago continues to maintain peaceful relations with the people of Venezuela,” the Prime Minister said in a statement posted to her social media platforms around 5.42am.
Yesterday morning, the world awoke to news that Venezuela was plunged into its most dramatic rupture in decades after US forces launched an overnight operation in Caracas, capturing President Maduro and his wife, Cilia, in just two hours and flying them out of the country as Washington declared it would “run” Venezuela temporarily.
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