The militaries of the United States and Trinidad & Tobago, an island nation of about 1.5 million people just off the coast of Venezuela, have been carrying out joint military exercises all week, which are scheduled to end on Friday, Nov. 21. Those maneuvers have been part of a massive American military buildup in the southern Caribbean, which U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to unleash to topple Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
But growing opposition to the threatened war among political layers across the Caribbean, including inside T&T, has driven T&T Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to state that they will not be part of any U.S. attack on Venezuela. “Trinidad and Tobago will NOT participate in any act that will bring harm to the Venezuelan people,” she stated mid-week. “We continue to have peaceful relations with the people of Venezuela…. Trinidad and Tobago citizens and infrastructure are NOT at risk as we are NOT participants in any aggression against the people of Venezuela,” the Prime Minister insisted.
