Raphael John-Lall

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro called Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a “war­mon­ger” who has forced the Venezue­lan peo­ple to have protests and march­es all over Venezuela in re­cent days be­cause of T&T’s sup­port for the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary ac­tions in the Caribbean.

“Venezuela is over­flow­ing…with the pa­tri­ot­ic march­es that be­gan through­out the east­ern part of the coun­try be­cause they or­gan­ised them­selves in Mon­a­gas, Delta Amacuro, An­zoátegui, Su­cre and Nue­va Es­par­ta. They or­gan­ised them­selves on Mon­day, Tues­day, Wednes­day and Thurs­day against the threat of mil­i­tary ex­er­cis­es called by the ir­re­spon­si­ble and war­mon­ger­ing Prime Min­is­ter who is de­ter­mined to de­stroy the his­tor­i­cal bonds of broth­er­hood, co­op­er­a­tion and peace be­tween T&T and Venezuela,” he said.

He made these com­ments on Mon­day night on his week­ly pro­gramme “Con Maduro.”

He added that T&T’s Prime Min­is­ter has done “great dam­age” to the re­la­tion­ship be­tween T&T and Venezuela.

“Be­cause she re­sponds more to the in­ter­ests of the Amer­i­can far-right than to the in­ter­ests of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go, that is the truth.”

The Gov­er­nor of the Venezue­lan state of Mi­ran­da, Elio Ser­ra­no joined Maduro and his oth­er col­leagues from Venezuela’s rul­ing So­cial­ist Par­ty and con­demned T&T’s sup­port for the US, call­ing the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion “lowlife.”