The Prime Minister has responded to a statement by Venezuela's Vice President concerning the deaths of the local fishermen in the latest US military strike in the US war on drugs in the region.
00:00Venezuela's Vice President Delce Rodriguez has weighed in on local media reports that relatives of one Trinidad and Tobago fisherman suspect that he and another Trinidad and Tobago national were killed in the most recent U.S. military strike on a boat the U.S. says was a vessel affiliated with a designated terrorist organization conducting narco-trafficking in the U.S. Southcombe area of responsibility just off the coast of Venezuela.
00:25In a statement on the social media platform Telegram, Venezuela's Vice President Rodriguez said, quote,
00:32The U.S. military should kill them all. A self-fulfilling prophecy of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamala Passat, when she applauded the U.S. warmongering plan against Venezuela, the bombs also extrajudicially murdered humble citizens of their country.
00:48Venezuela warned it, the U.S. government intends to alter the peace of the Caribbean and Latin America in the union of our peoples is the guarantee of peace, end quote.
00:59This was an apparent reference to Prime Minister Kamala Passat's statement following the first U.S. military strike in the new U.S. war on drug cartels in the region that she has, quote,
01:10No sympathy for traffickers. The U.S. military should kill them all violently, end quote.
01:16TV6 News has sent a written question to Prime Minister Passat-Basasa, seeking her response to the comments made by Venezuela's Vice President on Thursday.
01:24Prime Minister Passat-Basasa told the TV6 News, quote,
01:27I stand by my previous comments. Nothing has occurred to cause any change in my opinion, end quote.
01:34Prime Minister Passat-Basasa has said that she has nothing against the people of Venezuela, but has also expressed her administration's full support for the deployment of the U.S. military in the Caribbean under President Trump in what the U.S. says is its new war on drug cartels in the region.
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