00:00You see Delce changing her tune and changing her position on issues because of U.S. power over her and
00:10over the country in Venezuela.
00:12And one of the things we have to ask ourselves, because we don't understand the pragmatism sometimes,
00:17and it might just be that the prime minister has more balls than all female counterparts in the region.
00:23Mr. Agustin held a wide-ranging media briefing on Sunday in Tobago.
00:28He spoke to the military radar installed in Grompoint and his initial stance on its installation.
00:35I did not have the benefit of the kinds of conversations that perhaps the prime minister then had with her
00:43counterparts in the U.S.
00:44And looking back now, looking at the whole situation and how it played itself out,
00:51I don't know whether the radar was in Tobago or not, if that would have stopped the U.S. from
00:56getting Maduro.
00:58And I find that we have glossed over the fact that Maduro was taken and those that were the strongest
01:05allies and supporters of Maduro,
01:08those who were swearing by Almighty God that they would protect him, all of a sudden they get quiet.
01:12They stop hearing anything from them.
01:14Agustin spoke again to Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa's agreement with the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago's position.
01:22Perhaps we should be asking ourselves now, if the prime minister took and adopted a different position than she did,
01:29what would be our relationship with the United States now?
01:32Would we be among those that will be banned from having visas to the U.S.?
01:37Will we be forced, like some of those in the region, to backpedal from our position and now accept from
01:46third countries,
01:48accept deportees who were not originally citizens of Trinidad and Tobago?
01:53He said there must be a measure of expectation with practicality, as the prime minister continues to be wise in
02:02her decisions.
02:03I am not hearing those questions being asked and the practical wisdom, perhaps, of the decision of the prime minister
02:10then.
02:11I took a different position.
02:12Then I said if I had the power, then the waiter probably wouldn't be in Tobago.
02:18The prime minister took a decision based, obviously, on the information she had access to.
02:23When we look back now, look at how the whole thing played off,
02:26then we possibly should say that that was the best decision that she took at that time.
02:31given how this thing played itself out.
02:34Because perhaps the country would have been rioting today if they knew they couldn't line up by the embassy for
02:40a visa
02:40or that they couldn't go and check the family who are living abroad and all knowing their green card,
02:47that living illegally in the people's place.
02:49Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:51Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:51Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:53Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:54Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:55Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:55Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:55Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
02:55Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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