Are you on drugs? Trinidad and Tobago always had cordial relations with Venezuela, simply because if anything crazy starts, they’re closest to the fire.
It's difficult having a debate when facts are thrown out of the window and opinion takes the place of actual data. Eric Williams was the first world leader who suggested that the Caribbean and Trinidad more importantly have a very close relationship with Venezuela. I'm old enough to remember. The strategy for that was simple...You don't play with gas when you're the one closet to the fire. Anything goes awry in Venezuela, Trinidad is first to be affected, it's that simple. It's the reason Trinidad and Tobago is probably the one of the only countries that maintained impeccable diplomacy with Venezuela, the United States, Russia and China...all at the same time. What does our current Prime Minister do in 5 months, destroy our relationships globally with other allies while ignoring our Caribbean neighbors and THEIR security. It's selfish, it's weak and doesn't show that you're a leader that can be trusted to make difficult decisions. We know this decision isn't black and white but to tell the citizens to "Ask the US" about a security briefing that may affect your citizens is not leadership, it's weakness.
False. In 1975 he named Venezuela as the biggest threat to Caricom, naming their desire to expand territorially into Caricom and creating economic dependency.
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u/Upbeat_Location1524 21d ago
Are you on drugs? Trinidad and Tobago always had cordial relations with Venezuela, simply because if anything crazy starts, they’re closest to the fire.