Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power for Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello has made reference to a “drunk woman” governing Trinidad, and a “stupid crook” in the Dominican Republic, whose people were being condemned.

Speaking on Venezuelan television during a weekly programme on Wednesday night, Cabello said: “This is just starting. For example, the stupid crook who governs the Dominican Republic and the drunk woman who governs Trinidad, when they... side with this attack, they are condemning their people to be executed at sea. Their fishermen are being condemned to execution.”

Cabello said Trinidad and Tobago’s (and other Caribbean) fishermen were being condemned to execution at sea as a result of the Trinidadian Government’s decision to align with the US after the lethal American boat strike in Caribbean waters.