Freelance Contributor
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil is warning that any foreign military aggression against Venezuela would have considerable repercussions on T&T and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean.
While there were initial reports about an imminent strike on Venezuela yesterday, US President Donald Trump subsequently denied the claims.
Asked by reporters on Air Force One if media reports that he was considering strikes within Venezuela were true, Trump said: “No.”
T&T’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar also denied having any knowledge about impending US military action when questioned by local media.
During his speech at the Meeting of Parliamentarians from the Greater Caribbean in Defence of Peace in Caracas, however, Gil said “the destabilisation of this area, which was declared a Zone of Peace in 2014, is perhaps the first of the consequences we could face if a military intervention were irresponsibly decided upon by the United States government.”
In this regard, he reminded some governments that are allies of the US that even they would not escape such consequences.
“It would not be Venezuela that would pay the most regrettable consequences of such an intervention (…) Guyana itself, Trinidad and Tobago; the one whose Prime Minister threatens us and has assumed a position of constant war against Venezuela, even against its own people, would suffer the most tragic consequences of any intervention,” he said.
He stressed that Venezuela is prepared to defend its territory should the US attempt to carry out an attack.
“We are prepared in a civic, military and police union, but also with a historical, patriotic, and sovereign sense to continue along the path of the Bolivarian Revolution under any circumstance,” Gil said after recalling that Venezuela has been waging a battle against the US and its European satellites for 26 years.
