25 Aug 2025 3:46 pm
Venezuela is in cahoots with the drug cartels. Trump will put a stop to that.
Caribbean Island 7 Miles from Venezuela Endorses U.S. Navy Deployment if Maduro Attacks Neighboring Country
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Trinidad and Tobago have declared its support for the U.S. Navy's recent deployment near Venezuela and said it would allow American forces to use its territory if President Nicolas Maduro were to attack neighboring Guyana, with which it currently has a heated territorial dispute. The remarks follow Washington D.C.'s decision to deploy three naval destroyers along with an amphibious squadron to the southern Caribbean to conduct counternarcotics operations. The Trump administration framed the mission as an effort to dismantle "terrorist drug cartels," while Maduro announced plans to mobilize more than 4.5 million militia members and sign up more to "defend national sovereignty."
"Trinidad and Tobago has always had good relations with the Venezuelan people and that will continue," said Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in a statement. "However, I want to make it very clear that if the Maduro regime launches any attack against the Guyanese people or invades Guyanese territory and a request is made by the American government for access to Trinidadian territory to defend the people of Guyana, my government will unflinchingly provide them that access. "Guyana, which has an ongoing dispute with Venezuela over the Essequibo region, expressed concerns about transnational crime and pledged to work with partners on regional security.