By Khamarie Rodriguez
Copyright trinidadexpress
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez says the only nuclear bomb dropped in the Caribbean has been on the brain of Trinidad and Tobago’s new government.
Rodriguez posted to her Facebook page this afternoon in response to Minister in the Ministry of Housing Phillip Edward Alexander’s statements earlier this week that the government of India would ‘nuke’ Venezuela in defence of the Caribbean island.
“The only nuclear bomb dropped into the brain of this official’s newly-taken government,” Rodriguez posted.
“Trinidad and Tobago should think of its people before they intend to attack Venezuela, and renounce their vassage to the US government that intends to steal our immense energy resources. They could not and will not with our determination to freedom and self-determination, widely exercised in our diplomacy of peace,” wrote Rodriguez.
Alexander in a social media rant on Tuesday said to the Venezuelan government, “Let me tell you this, you think America is the only problem? (Indian Prime Minister Narendra) Modi came here to show Trinidad and Tobago that one of the most powerful nations in the world has Trinidad in its hands, the diaspora,” he said.
Alexander referenced Modi’s recent visit to the country in July, and claimed that Trinidad and Tobago’s ethnic majority was east Indian.
“That will hurt you this morning, it will ‘bun’ you in your belly. Trinidad is part of the Indian diaspora. Trinidad has more people of East Indian descent than any other race. Let that ‘bun’ you in your navel. Oh god Phillip don’t say it. Let us pretend Trinidad is a black country.”
“That is what the 1% want to tell you, to incite violence… They don’t want you to know that the largest group of people in Trinidad and Tobago are of east Indian descent…and Modi and India have us held gently in the palm of his hands and he will nuke Venezuela. You think it is Trump alone you are dealing with? Touch Trinidad Delcy, you have talk?” Alexander had said.
Alexander later told the media that he had no information on Indian intervention in the event of military explanation. However he said the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Sean Sobers) had made it clear that the country was not responding well to threats.
He said his statements made in the live video were hyperbolic, but that Trinidad and Tobago was ‘well protected.’
His statement came after repeated warnings from the Venezuelan government to the country, in the aftermath of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s promise of ‘unflinching access’ to US forces in the country’s territory in the event of a Venezuelan attack in Guyana.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro also earlier this week said that Persad-Bissessar’ had gone crazy, and that her welcoming of the US’ military action and lethal strikes on Venezuelan vessels had read like a ‘declaration of war against Venezuela.
On Sunday, Venezuela’s Minister of Defence Vladimir Padrino Lopez issued a warning to the country that any attack on Venezuela launched on its territory would receive a response from its military.
