00:00Venezuelan activist Yacina Gonzalez is standing in solidarity with Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa
00:07as she joins the United States in waging war against Venezuela's drug cartels.
00:13The Prime Minister came under fire last week after defending a U.S. missile strike
00:19that destroyed a vessel allegedly carrying traffickers, saying kill them all violently.
00:25Speaking on the TV6 Morning Edition today, Gonzalez said that Prime Minister Passat-Bissessa
00:32is moving in the right direction.
00:46Gonzalez says Venezuelan nationals seeking asylum in Trinidad and Tobago
00:52are simply trying to live quietly.
00:55Venezuelan migrants who are in Trinidad right now, they are trying to maintain their peace,
01:01very quiet, taking out of this situation, the scare of the war, and basically praying that
01:08we get ready for this beast, this Maduro.
01:12She tells the Morning Edition, the Maduro regime continues to accuse the United States
01:18of being responsible for the dire conditions in Venezuela, but she insists that is not accurate.
01:25Because it really continues to destroy the country, hunger, all sorts of things happen in Venezuela.
01:32They only show wherever it is, but if you're going on the countryside, people in Hong Kong,
01:38they can't get food, it's very sad.
01:40We have destroyed the country.
01:42And they're blaming, they're blaming America and they're saying that now because they sanctioned Venezuela,
01:48that's why they suffer.
01:49So it is sanctioned Venezuela and that is what they suffer.
01:53My question is, how can they so reach?
01:56In light of the current situation, Gonzalez is also pleading with Prime Minister Pasad Bissasa
02:02not to proceed with deporting Venezuelan refugees seeking asylum in Trinidad and Tobago back to Venezuela.
02:09You have the right not to be removed as the risk violation, protection, deportation to the only way to get ready for Maduro.
02:20You understand?
02:20So you deport them then when you possibly will face war, you put them then at risk, right?
02:27And this whole thing could cause legal international implication and embarrassment
02:33to Trinidad and Tobago over the decision of the Prime Minister, Camila Bissasa.
02:38Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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