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CARICOM is between island rocks and hard continental places. So says regional veteran journalist, Earl Bousquet, who does not believe CARICOM will take any position on the developments between the US and Venezuela, given that Trinidad and Tobago has already taken a stance. Rynessa Cutting has more from MSJ's Tuesday Talks series.
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00:00I don't expect CARICOM as a unit to take a position because of the whole unanimity clause,
00:24whereby if one says no, in this case Trinidad and Tobago most likely, there will not be a united position.
00:35Jamaica will not take any position against it.
00:50They will say it's drug enforcement and the United States is there for drug enforcement.
00:56Jamaica will not take, and if they even follow CARICOM, they will call Mr. Marco Rubio and say, look here.
01:06The majority of countries vote in this way, and we were forced to be part of signing.
01:13So don't expect much from Jamaica.
01:17In fact, don't expect much from the Caribbean because they are under tremendous political and economic pressure from the USA.
01:26What this does is opens the floor for CARICOM, CELAC, OECS and ALBA together and the political parties to come together
01:46and do more than just take middle of the road or stand by positions in so far as the Guyana-Venezuela issue.
01:57Because in the case of Guyana and Venezuela, both have been good to CARICOM.
02:04Venezuela has been good to CARICOM.
02:06What we are not seeing sufficiently is that the historic Seven Sisters in the United States and Europe
02:26are once again setting the stage to be able to continue controlling the energy resources of the Caribbean
02:35in bigger ways than ever.
02:37And I think we need to be able to take all of those into consideration when we consider where we go from here.
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