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For­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Dr Bhoen­dra­datt Tewarie has warned that in­creased ten­sions be­tween Venezuela and the Unit­ed States fol­lowed by tougher sanc­tions could trig­ger a new wave of mi­gra­tion across the hemi­sphere.

He said in a sit­u­a­tion where the US bor­der is closed and there is com­pli­cat­ed oil pol­i­tics and in­creased geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions, this could make life very dif­fi­cult for the coun­tries in the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca that are caught be­tween those two na­tions.

Dr Tewarie delved in­to the geopo­lit­i­cal is­sues af­fect­ing the re­gion in a wide-rang­ing ad­dress at a Michael Bap­tista Lec­ture at York Uni­ver­si­ty, Cana­da, last Thurs­day.