Cabello takes aim at T&T, Guyana

PSUV General Secretary, Diosdado Cabello (BBC photo)

The Secretary General of Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, has made it clear that the party fully supports the decision of the Bolivarian Government to immediately terminate any contract or negotiation involving the supply of gas to Trinidad and Tobago.
He made the statements at the PSUV’s weekly press conference in Caracas.
After reading the official statement released on Monday by Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Cabello reiterated the “total and absolute support of the PSUV for the decisions that the national government has been taking, in the face of the various attacks that have been unleashed against our country by North American imperialism.”
Subsequently, the PSUV Secretary General stated that this is a sovereign decision in the face of “T&T’s complicity with the illegal acts of the United States to steal Venezuelan oil.”
Cabello warned the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana that “Venezuela’s homeland will respond to any aggression against the Venezuelan people.”
“We have said it, and we take full and absolute responsibility for this: Any aggression against Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, know what our response will be, and they should know it too; we are not naive. We know where the attacks are coming from, how they are coming, and what bases they are using to attack our people,” he pointed out.
Cabello called on the governments he described as complicit to assume responsibility for the interventionist actions perpetrated by the US administration.
He reiterated that Trinidad and Tobago has lent its territory for covert military operations carried out by the United States in the Caribbean, which he said violates international law.
However, on Monday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar dismissed the Venezuelan Government’s accusation that Trinidad and Tobago colluded with the United States in the seizure of its oil tanker as “false propaganda.”
The Prime Minister said that if the Venezuelan Government has a problem with the seizure of the oil tanker “Skipper,” it should raise the matter with United States President Donald Trump. (Trinidad and Tobago Guardian)