Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

The three Unit­ed States war­ships de­ployed to the Caribbean are ex­pect­ed to ar­rive to­mor­row, and as they move in, Venezue­lans liv­ing in Trinidad are hope­ful that the de­ploy­ment will lead to the re­moval of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro. They are al­so wish­ing for new elec­tions to be held, en­abling them to re­turn home peace­ful­ly.

Fear­ful for their safe­ty, all of the Venezue­lan na­tion­als in­ter­viewed by Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day de­clined to give their names be­cause of fear of per­se­cu­tion. How­ev­er, they ad­mit­ted they have been pray­ing for US in­ter­ven­tion due to the strug­gles they faced in their home­land. They ac­knowl­edged that the Venezue­lan econ­o­my was bet­ter than in pre­vi­ous years but said food and oth­er es­sen­tials re­mained out of reach.