Raphael John-Lall

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is al­leg­ing that an­oth­er batch of weapons has been seized in Venezuela com­ing from T&T.

Dur­ing Wednes­day night's broad­cast of the pro­gramme “Con El Ma­zo Dan­do”, trans­mit­ted by Vene­zolana de Tele­visión (VTV), Ca­bel­lo re­port­ed that as part of the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion be­ing car­ried out by the Gov­ern­ment in Cara­cas against desta­bi­liza­tion plans, the weapons from T&T were seized in east­ern Venezuela on Tues­day.

"We an­nounced an op­er­a­tion and yes­ter­day they seized an­oth­er batch of weapons at a site in east­ern Venezuela. Some of these weapons were brought in from Trinidad," he said.

Ca­bel­lo al­so made ref­er­ence to an in­ves­tiga­tive piece by the Venezue­lan dig­i­tal me­dia out­let “La Tabla” in which he said it was re­port­ed that more than 100,000 car­tridges were lost in T&T and no one knows where they are.

"It was an in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­duct­ed by that web­site, and when we say some­thing is wrong, they (T&T) get of­fend­ed." 

Ca­bel­lo added, "we're not say­ing what they were go­ing to do with the weapons so as not to get in­to the de­tails", but "be­hind this is the nar­co-para­mil­i­tary and the op­po­si­tion in Venezuela, which has no scru­ples and is ca­pa­ble of al­ly­ing it­self with any­one to gain pow­er in the coun­try, but they haven't been able to, and nev­er will be able to."

On Mon­day, the jus­tice min­is­ter de­scribed as "crazy" state­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last Thurs­day when she threat­ened to use lethal force against any Venezue­lan ves­sel en­ter­ing T&T wa­ters.

At the time the Prime Min­is­ter was re­spond­ing to claims by Ca­bel­lo that a T&T na­tion­al, “Gis Kendel Jheron”, had been ar­rest­ed along with Colom­bian para­mil­i­taries at­tempt­ing to en­ter Venezuela to desta­bi­lize the coun­try.