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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Venezuela warns Trinidad against fuelling tensions

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks to the press before leaving the Supreme Court where he arrived for procedures related to the court's audit of presidential election results in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matías Delacroix)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks to the press before leaving the Supreme Court where he arrived for procedures related to the court's audit of presidential election results in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matías Delacroix)

Matias Delacroix

The Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of is­su­ing an “an­gry and un­jus­ti­fied” re­sponse to its con­cerns about so called "ter­ror­ists" orig­i­nat­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In an of­fi­cial com­mu­nique is­sued a short while ago, the Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion said Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­ac­tion raised “se­ri­ous sus­pi­cions of com­plic­i­ty” in the al­leged in­cur­sion and could dam­age co­op­er­a­tion be­tween both coun­tries.

“The Prime Min­is­ter’s vir­u­lent and high-hand­ed at­ti­tude rais­es se­ri­ous sus­pi­cions of com­plic­i­ty... and un­der­mines the good co­op­er­a­tive re­la­tions be­tween our coun­tries in key ar­eas,” the state­ment said.

Venezuela said Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro had made a “le­git­i­mate” com­plaint, adding that not on­ly were sev­er­al Trinida­di­an na­tion­als de­tained but that they had "con­fessed" to their plans.

The Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment said its case is backed by “com­pelling ev­i­dence” from its au­thor­i­ties.

It warned against what it de­scribed as “geopo­lit­i­cal games” and urged Trinidad and To­ba­go’s au­thor­i­ties to re­solve any le­git­i­mate con­cerns through diplo­mat­ic chan­nels.

“Any le­git­i­mate con­cern should be ad­dressed through diplo­mat­ic chan­nels—not through threats or un­found­ed state­ments that on­ly fu­el ar­ti­fi­cial ten­sions,” the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment added.

———This is a de­vel­op­ing sto­ry———


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