Raphael Lall

Thou­sands of gov­ern­ment sup­port­ers marched through the Venezue­lan state of Mi­ran­da on Tues­day, hold­ing plac­ards of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and call­ing on her “not to de­stroy the peace” in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

Among those lead­ing the demon­stra­tion was Car­men Melén­dez, May­or of Cara­cas and Vice Pres­i­dent for Re­gion­al Af­fairs of Venezuela’s rul­ing So­cial­ist Par­ty. Melén­dez ac­cused the Trinidad and To­ba­go leader of align­ing with the Unit­ed States against Venezuela and went as far as claim­ing she was “mur­der­ing chil­dren.”