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Lead Ed­i­tor - Pol­i­tics

Hours af­ter US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s warn­ing to Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro that his days in pow­er were num­bered, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar main­tains that the US mil­i­tary build-up in the re­gion is aimed at com­bat­ing drug traf­fick­ing, not regime change. She al­so re­it­er­at­ed that no re­quest has been made for Trinidad and To­ba­go to serve as a base for po­ten­tial at­tacks on Venezue­lan soil.

How­ev­er, in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les be­lieves Trump’s ac­tions make it clear that the ob­jec­tive goes be­yond drug in­ter­dic­tion, aim­ing in­stead to re­move the Maduro regime. He now ques­tions how the Per­sad-Bisses­sar Gov­ern­ment would re­spond if land strikes were to be­gin.