CNN- Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has praised a US strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean and said that all traffickers should be killed “violently.”
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that 11 people were killed aboard the boat that had departed Venezuela, which is located near Trinidad and Tobago.
“I, along with most of the country, am happy that the US naval deployment is having success in their mission,” Persad-Bissessar said in a statement late Tuesday. “The pain and suffering the cartels have inflicted on our nation is immense. I have no sympathy for traffickers; the US military should kill them all violently.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the drugs aboard the vessel were likely headed to Trinidad or elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Persad-Bissessar said that restricting illegal guns, drugs and human trafficking would decrease violence in the Caribbean region and the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, which has imposed two state of emergencies in recent months.
“Our country has been ravaged by bloody violence and addiction because of the greed of the cartels,” Persad-Bissessar said. “The slaughter of our people is fueled by evil cartel traffickers.”
Other Caribbean leaders were more reserved in their remarks.
Barbados Today, a local news site, quoted Barbadian Foreign Minister Kerrie Symmonds as saying that foreign ministers within Caricom, a 15-member regional trade bloc, wrote to Rubio to ensure that future military operations within the Caribbean don’t occur without prior notice or explanation.
“What effectively we are trying to do is to work through the diplomatic channels of making sure that there are no surprises and practices, so that you get notification wherever it is feasible for actions that are going to have a foreseeable regional impact,” Symmonds was quoted as saying.
He said that ongoing dialogue would “avoid misunderstandings, and we can maintain and strengthen our mutual confidence with each other.”
Meanwhile, Colombian President Gustavo Petro questioned the operation on Wednesday, saying that it’s possible to conduct maritime interdiction of drug shipments without attacking a vessel’s occupants. He said that Colombia typically captures them, since those transporting the drugs “are not the big drug traffickers,” but rather, “very poor young people” from the region.
“Bombing the boat violates the universal principle of proportionality of force and results in murder,” the leftist president wrote on X.
Trump has said that the vessel targeted in the strike in international waters was operated by Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. The White House didn’t immediately explain how the military determined that those aboard the vessel were Tren de Aragua members.
The strike came after the US announced last month that it planned to boost its maritime force in waters off Venezuela to fight threats from Latin American drug cartels.
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This lady might be the worst leader in the Caribbean I actually hope she is getting paid because being this big a clown is actually sad.
Again UNODC(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) World Drug Report 2025 States Venezuela is free of coca cultivation and cocaine processing. And out of 3,708 tons per year The epicenter of activity remains in the Andean countries (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia), but production emphasis is concentrated in Colombia. This country accounts for 67% of the world’s coca leaf cultivation.
So where is the evidence?
So Rodrigo Duterte is romanticize by persad prime minister of Trinidad and American president trump, he should be exonerated from any trial and persecution since america is following his lead and the Trinidad prime minister cheering on.
But am against drugs, and that phentinyl that got those Americans leaning over like zombie should be eliminated, but trump have the drug Lords right there in the USA, the FBI and CIA knows them, take them out, not because they are white, they destroying america.
Are some of these leaders dumb and foolish.
I’m not a trump guy, but to say that you can stop drug smuggling without killing the traffickers, is as dumb a statement that I have ever heard.
What other alternatives that have worked in the past, I would like to know? Because putting these Cartel’s in jail have proven over and over that those measures doesn’t fix anything.
Didn’t Escobar built his own prison, and didn’t El Chapo build a tunnel 9 miles long to escape jail multiple times?
Let me remind these leaders who are against killing these drug runners…on those boats are some men with some of the biggest guns you can purchase, and they are not in the arms of these drug smugglers for kicks and giggles, they have every intention to use those guns to defend against anyone who tries to stop them, including the Coast Guard and the little police force we have in some of these tiny Caribbean islands. So cry me a river.
I’ll give credit where credit is due..it was a very strong message sent. It wouldn’t stop every single drug from entering the Caribbean, but it had its effects in a positive way.
Unnecessarily harsh rhetoric from the words of that wicked PM of Trinidad and Tobago. The fact that she jumped the gun in reacting to the serious actions of Trump and his mercenaries is overt testimony to the following.
i) she is seeking favour with the orange duck up North.
ii) she has no use and no respect for CARICOM which, it is alleged, she has described as a black nearga sudden.
iii) Again as alleged, that she intends to create an Indo-Caribbean bloc in unison Guyana, dominated exclusively by persons of Asian (Indians) descent. Such ambitions have been, it is alleged, have been openly articulated for some time
(iv) Given Guyana’s recent conflict with Venezuela over ownership of territory bordering both countries, this racist hothead is jumping the gun, siding with the US and its mercenaries by applauding what may well turn out to be unprovoked acts of aggression against Venezuela . Madam PM, go back and read your history books! This is an oft-used tatic of US dogs of war who capitalized on under,schooled power-hungry, unscrupulous “leaders” hoping for scraps of doggie bones from Donald Trump in the
process. Shame on you, Madam PM of Trinidad and Tobago!
The Mena Connection lives. It’s not about the drugs, it’s about who controls the drugs.
Americans are addicts by nature. It starts in the home where big pharma fills the medicine cabinets with ‘over the counter medications.’
Most street drugs have their roots in the DRUG STORE. Cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, opioids, OxyContin were all distributed legally by doctors pushing big pharma drugs.
They created the addicts. The DRUG STORE was rebranded and renamed The PHARMACY.
This Cocaine and coco cultivation issue in South America is like the Poppy cultivation and heroin issue in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Piece of sh.t, this anim.l sucks
I’m with Kamla; kill all ah dem!
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