Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of be­ing “re­spon­si­ble” for the deaths of fish­er­men killed in a U.S. mil­i­tary strike in the Caribbean.

Last week, 11 peo­ple died when a U.S. op­er­a­tion tar­get­ed a boat the Amer­i­cans claimed was leav­ing Venezuela with drugs. Ca­bel­lo made his com­ments on Wednes­day night dur­ing his week­ly pro­gramme Con El Ma­zo Dan­do, con­tin­u­ing a string of per­son­al at­tacks on the T&T Prime Min­is­ter. Over re­cent months, he has la­belled her “crazy” and, most re­cent­ly, “a drunk.”

Ad­dress­ing the in­ci­dent, Ca­bel­lo said the U.S. at­tack was based on “fake news.” He added: “One of the nar­ra­tives is that they men­tioned the Aragua Train again. It seems they have X-rays from a ship or a plane. They de­ter­mined they were from that or­ga­ni­za­tion. Well, it is a lie! They them­selves ad­mit that.” He then tar­get­ed the Prime Min­is­ter:

“They mur­dered some of the peo­ple and the la­dy who gov­erns Trinidad bears a lot of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty. A lot of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty. Now she’s con­demn­ing to death, any fish­er­man from Trinidad, from To­ba­go, from Venezuela, from any is­land who goes out to fish. They can do it from the high seas and bomb them.”

Ca­bel­lo al­so crit­i­cised the U.S. for in­con­sis­tent re­port­ing on the strike, claim­ing: “First, they said it was a ship. Then they re­leased a 29-sec­ond video; that video has eight dif­fer­ent takes, which is why they’re con­fus­ing it. In some takes, they show a boat. In oth­ers, they show an­oth­er boat. That’s their lie to de­ceive the world.”

Sep­a­rate­ly, in Su­cre state, Venezuela, Del­cy Ro­dríguez ad­dressed the de­ploy­ment of Plan In­de­pen­dence 200, ac­cus­ing the gov­ern­ments of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana of act­ing as “vas­sals” of the U.S. War De­part­ment. She warned: “Take it easy, don’t dare and don’t even think about it, you are lend­ing your­selves to the per­verse plans of an ag­gres­sion against the peo­ple of Simón Bolí­var, but you are al­so lend­ing your­selves to desta­bi­liz­ing the en­tire Caribbean and this con­ti­nent.”

Ro­dríguez said the op­er­a­tion in east­ern Venezuela in­cludes 34 ac­tive re­sis­tance points to pro­tect the Caribbean Sea and At­lantic coast, adding: “The Venezue­lan peo­ple are mo­bi­lized for peace, ready to de­fend our ter­ri­to­r­i­al in­tegri­ty, our in­de­pen­dence, and sta­bil­i­ty.”