The regime of Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro has warned Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana that if they “lend them­selves to an at­tack” against Venezuela, “they will re­ceive a re­sponse.”

The warn­ing came from Venezuela's De­fence Min­is­ter yes­ter­day evening. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar did not re­spond to Guardian Me­dia’s query re­gard­ing Maduro’s re­port­ed state­ment.

Oth­er se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials said the Prime Min­is­ter has made her po­si­tion clear and has main­tained it. They added that the PM will speak at the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly on Sep­tem­ber 26 and will “...give Trinidad and To­ba­go’s po­si­tion on every­thing.”

Venezuela’s De­fence Min­is­ter, Gen­er­al Vladimir Padri­no López, told T&T not to al­low US forces to use its ter­ri­to­ry as a base to at­tack Venezuela.

The se­nior Venezue­lan mil­i­tary of­fi­cial stat­ed that should T&T or Guyana lend their ter­ri­to­ries to po­ten­tial US mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion against Venezuela, they would face a force­ful re­sponse in le­git­i­mate de­fence.

“It is nec­es­sary to warn that if an at­tack against Venezuela is launched from those ter­ri­to­ries, we will re­spond pro­por­tion­al­ly, in le­git­i­mate de­fence of our sov­er­eign­ty,” Padri­no said, ac­cus­ing both gov­ern­ments of fol­low­ing di­rec­tives draft­ed in Wash­ing­ton and align­ing them­selves with the nar­ra­tive of US im­pe­ri­al­ism.

Al­so last night, Ed­uar­do Menoni, ed­i­tor of Lal­ib­er­tad Me­dia, re­port­ed on X that the US Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion had “iden­ti­fied the bunker” be­long­ing to Maduro and Venezue­lan Min­is­ter of Pop­u­lar Pow­er for In­te­ri­or, Jus­tice and Peace Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo at Simón Bolí­var In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

The re­port pro­vid­ed co­or­di­nates and de­tailed five un­der­ground lev­els, 40 me­tres deep, in­clud­ing a pres­i­den­tial ar­rival hall with a liv­ing room, bar­racks, a gym, and oxy­gen sup­ply for 25 days. It al­so claimed the fa­cil­i­ty was guard­ed by Cuban se­cu­ri­ty. A pic­ture ac­com­pa­nied the post.

T&T, Guyana, and three South Amer­i­can coun­tries are part of the US’ in­ter­na­tion­al coali­tion against drug car­tels, the fo­cus of its mil­i­tary de­ploy­ment.