Freelance Contributor
The US strikes on a Venezuelan boat on Tuesday, which resulted in two T&T nationals being killed, shows that T&T’s citizens are being murdered by their own ally, the United States.
This is the view of William Castillo Bollé, the Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Anti-Blockade, who published this opinion on his X account on Friday.
His ministry is charged with the responsibility of evading US sanctions.
The deputy minister’s post was accompanied by a video from CNC3’s newscast.
In the message posted on his X account, Castillo wrote the following: “They ask T&T citizens to stay close to the coast because at sea they can be bombed by their American allies. This is not a joke; it speaks volumes.”
Two T&T citizens were killed last Tuesday by the United States’ Government, following an attack on a vessel sailing in the Caribbean Sea.
The victims were fishermen and lived in Las Cuevas. One of them was identified as 26-year-old Chad Joseph, and the other victim was known as Rishi Samaroo.
In a separate post on his X account on Friday, Castillo also shared a video in support of David Abdulah, who is an executive member of the Assembly of Caribbean People and other activists protesting outside the US Embassy in Port-of-Spain against what they perceive to be extrajudicial killings carried out by the US Government.
“Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago denounce the extrajudicial executions by the army of the world’s second superpower. There is a killer in the Caribbean,” Castillo wrote in that post.
Castillo’s criticisms come after Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez lashed out at T&T’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday, saying the deaths of the two Trinidadians are a “self-fulfilling prophecy”.