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(CMC)—Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Monday urged the United States to settle its differences with Venezuela ”through diplomacy and dialogue,” reiterating that the Caribbean region should be a zone of peace.
Last week, US President Donald Trump said he had made up his mind on a course of action in Venezuela following multiple high-level briefings and a mounting US show of force in the region that includes the presence of the US’s largest carrier, the USS Gerald Forde.
“I sort of have made up my mind — yeah. I mean, I can’t tell you what it would be, but I sort of have,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
But in a message posted on his Facebook page on Monday, Prime Minister Gaston Browne wrote, “We encourage President Trump to resolve the differences between the US and Venezuela, through diplomacy and dialogue.
“Let’s continue to preserve our hemisphere as a zone of peace,” he added.
Last month, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders issued a statement in which they said they “met and discussed various issues on the regional agenda, including the increased security build-up in the Caribbean and the potential impacts on member states”.
The statement said that “save in respect of Trinidad and Tobago who reserved its position,” the leaders reaffirmed the principle of maintaining the Caribbean Region as a Zone of Peace and the importance of dialogue and engagement towards the peaceful resolution of disputes and conflict. Caricom remains willing to assist towards that objective”.
In September, Caricom foreign ministers sent a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, urging the United States to provide an assurance that any military action aimed at Venezuela will not threaten regional stability or occur without prior consultation and warning.
The United States ordered an amphibious squadron to the southern Caribbean as part of President Trump’s effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who has openly supported Washington’s war on drugs in Latin America and the Caribbean, said she had “no sympathy for traffickers” and that the US military should “kill them all violently.
A nuclear-powered attack submarine, additional P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft, several destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser have also been allocated to the US Southern Command as part of the mission.
Venezuela has since responded to what it termed the threat posed by the United States and has itself marshalled its troops along its borders.
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This needs to stop now jack! We cannot afford to retrogress in the name of “POWER”. It’s very scary when you really think about the seriousness of these actions.
Diplomacy??? Trump does not know the meaning of the word. He is just another WHITE world bully terrorizing the rest of the world with total impunity. He is indeed the “madman on the loose”, a world terrorist of the worst kind. Look at the way he treats his own countrymen who all cower in fear of this out-of-control monster. Diplomacy??? Really, Mr. PM???
@ Faithful National #1
Your statement is just “food for fodder”
When you write: “Look at the way he treats his own countrymen who all cower in fear of this out-of-control monster”.
Interestingly that statement is applicable to the local monster that you frequently defend and adulate in your comments.
I will admit that your local monster is more articulate than Trump. I’ll give that to him.
We can go down the litany of character traits that makes them pea in a pod.
Your guy is just in a smaller arena.
He is a black Regional bully terrorizing the rest of the Region with total impunity.
He too like is indeed the “madman on the loose”.
Maduro does not want to heart what America has to say…..He wants to remain as dictator of Venezuela which means to hell with democracy and to hell with what the people of the country really want….You Gaston and many small countries keep failing to realize America has tried to reach out to Maduro and tell him to please stand down…He says F**k Y** I will do what I want so now this is the situation at hand….President Obama tried diplomacy with Muammar Gaddafi and it failed big time he said F**k Y** so they had to go in and get him…The same thing happened 36 years ago in Panama when America ask Manuel Antonio Noriega and he said F**k Y** I will do what I want and then bam invasion of Panama….Why are y’all acting like this is a Trump thing?? No!! No!!!! This is an America thing to do when diplomacy fails…
A dictator doesn’t need elections to stay in power. Venezuela have had elections as per their constitution. And foreign observers which included our very own people of ABEC have been part of the observer group. And the report they produced was always that the elections were free and fair. Note that no election is perfect. Donald Trump also won some very controversial election and he almost refused his defeat against Biden and encourage his voters to start a revolution. One we all witnessed on the television live. And what did he do when he came back in office this year. He pardoned them all. Is that how democracy works?
The USA has only one objective and that is to install puppet government so that they can control the oil and thereby have the opperhand against China. It’s all a big power grab game of who controls the OIL
But I don’t think things will go easy for them if they decide on this military option.
Gaston please take a seat laddie. Your words and thoughts on this is useless. We want to hear about when the real investigations are going to begin regarding CORRUPTION in your administration in Antigua & Barbuda.
In essence CARICOM is bringing a water pistol to go up against, nuclear weapons in this WAR.
What diplomacy? Wall Street have already decided how this will play out.
CARICOM can approach China or Russia for some 303 Rifles or some bow & arrows to replace their water pistols.
Please concentrate on the CORRUPTION which is plaguing your ABLP Administration like a COVID-19 virus.
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Hmmmmm So @ Less We Forget…..Donald Trump stole the 2016 elections because Putin help him to win??? All Conspiracy theories that went to court and out the window because democrats couldn’t believe Trump won…..Donald Trump Lost in 2020 and his supporters decided to storm the capital he never told them to do so…They did it on their own he said he will contest the results and they were contested..The American people realized they made a mistake by electing a senile Preident and a useless mixed race woman who only identified with black people when she wanted our votes….When Kamala Harris was district Attorney in Califoria she gave black people much harsher sentences for crimes…..She never identified with black people untill it suited her narative….If Trump was anywhere close to trying to be a dictator he would try to have them shot like the democrats tried to kill Trump twice…….Trump is getting rid of Maduro because the exile former politicians in Venezuela have all reached out to the US. Maduro is a true dictator he has silenced and exiled many of his critics, he is working with the Russians and drug cartels….HE WILL BE REMOVED!
And also @ Less We Forget I would like you to go research the list of people Joe Biden pardoned…..SMH…..
The only thing I fear could happen is World War 3 if China decides to invade Taiwan while America invades Venezuela….America would have to aid Taiwan and Russia will use the opportunity to use the real heavy bombs on Ukraine…It might also cause Israel to face potential threats from their neighbors like Iran thinking the US is too occupied with other conflicts….I know for sure the USA, Russia and China does not want nuclear war with each other..They all have the big bad bombs but they know they could end all life on this planet if things get out of control and none of them want that…It’s called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)…