PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said ultimately Venezuelans must choose their own leaders, in a statement to Newsday on January 4.

After the US military snatched former Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro on December 3 for trial in the US for alleged narco-trafficking, US President Donald Trump said former vice president Delcy Rodriguez would become new leader and the US would run Venezuela. Trump said opposition figure Maria Corina Machado lacked popular support.

Newsday asked if TT could now work with a Rodriguez-led administration, as Persad-Bissessar was deemed a persona non grata by the Maduro government where Rodriguez was deputy.