PM Persad-Bissessar has renounced the sovereignty of Trinidad and Tobago to act as a military colony.

On Sunday, Venezuela denounced before the international community that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump continues its intention to provoke military actions against the Bolivarian nation.

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Yesterday morning, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to carry out several days of military exercises, and the arrival of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit is also expected.

In response, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez accused the United States of seeking an incident to justify a military aggression against his country.

The following is the statement released by the Venezuelan government:

“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces before the international community the dangerous execution of ‘military exercises’ by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago between the 26th and 30th of this month, under the coordination, financing, and control of the U.S. Southern Command—an action that constitutes a hostile provocation against Venezuela and a serious threat to peace in the Caribbean.

Venezuela reports that it has captured a mercenary group with direct information from the U.S. intelligence agency, the CIA, and has determined that a false-flag attack is being planned from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory, that would trigger a full-scale military confrontation against our country.

This planned action clearly recalls the provocations of the battleship Maine and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which gave rise to the war against Spain to seize Cuba in 1898, and which, respectively, allowed the U.S. Congress to authorize involvement in an endless war against Vietnam in 1964—a war from which the U.S. was ultimately defeated by the Vietnamese people after immense destruction and tragic human losses.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s government has renounced the sovereignty of Trinidad and Tobago to act as a military colony subordinated to U.S. hegemonic interests, turning its territory into an American aircraft carrier for war throughout the Caribbean—against Venezuela, against Colombia, and against all of South America.

By aligning herself with Washington’s militarist agenda, Persad-Bissessar not only seeks to attack Venezuela—a country that has always maintained a policy of energy cooperation, mutual respect, and Caribbean integration—and to break our historic bonds of brotherhood, but also violates the Charter of the United Nations, the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace approved by CELAC, and the principles of CARICOM, which protect all Caribbean peoples.

These are not defensive exercises; they are a colonial operation of military aggression aimed at turning the Caribbean into a space of lethal violence and U.S. imperial domination.

This submissive and treacherous policy, which betrays the constitutional principles of Trinidad and Tobago, has also harmed its own people: innocent fishermen have been victims of extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean Sea, revealing the repressive and criminal nature of the current government, which shoots at its own citizens under the slogan ‘kill them all,’ celebrating the summary execution of Trinidadians while opening its doors to foreign killer troops.

Venezuela does not accept threats from any vassal government of the United States. We are not intimidated by military exercises or war cries. The Bolivarian National Armed Forces will remain alert and mobilized in perfect popular-military-police unity in the face of this most serious provocation.

Our Republic, heir to Bolivar and Chavez, will always defend its sovereignty, its territorial integrity, and its right to live in peace against foreign enemies and their vassals.”

teleSUR/ JF

Sources: VFM – EFE

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