Grenada’s Ministries of National Security, Legal Affairs and Foreign Affairs are “carefully evaluating and reviewing” a request from the U.S. government for Grenada to host U.S. military personnel and equipment on its territory

According to the Granada Foreign Ministry, the request will also be analyzed by the Airport Authority and other relevant agencies.

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Grenada is a Caribbean island near Venezuela, where, according to the information, Washington intends to temporarily install radar equipment and associated technical personnel at Maurice Bishop International Airport.

This request comes in the context of an increase in tensions between Washington and Caracas over the military deployment of the United States in the Caribbean under the pretext of an alleged fight against drug trafficking from Venezuela.

In response, the Granada Foreign Ministry stressed that “any decision will be taken only after all technical and legal evaluations are completed.”

 “We assure our citizens that any decision made will be guided by the sovereignty, public safety and national interest of Grenada, including the protection of our tourism industry, travelers and the economic well-being of the country,” the statement said.

That country is a member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), which condemned last Friday what it considered the “illegal and provocative incursion” of U.S. aircraft near Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.

In a statement, ALBA said that the “systematic military harassment” is part of a “pattern of aggressions that seek to destabilize the region, instill fear and impose a logic of intimidation typical of imperial doctrine.”

In this context, the United States has so far destroyed at least five boats in the Caribbean, in attacks in which, according to officials in that country, 21 people accused of drug trafficking died.

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