The tension between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago has escalated after the Prime Minister of the island nation, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, warned Nicolás Maduro to stay out of Trinidadian territory, stating that any unidentified vessel entering their waters will be met with lethal force.
Persad-Bissessar also urged her citizens, drug traffickers, and those posing as “fishermen” that if they are captured by Venezuelans, they “will be alone.”
These statements are a response to Maduro and Diosdado Cabello’s claims that a group of armed men tried to enter Venezuela from Trinidad and Tobago.
“Following Maduro and Cabello’s comments, we must now take seriously the threat from that government to send agents into our country to carry out actions that could be detrimental to our wellbeing. We will also have to consider how to proceed with the Venezuelan migrants here who are men and women of military age and in good physical condition. We need to take this threat seriously now,” said the Prime Minister.
Trinidad Denies Incursion into Venezuela
Additionally, the Minister of Defense of Trinidad and Tobago, Wayne Sturge, stated that there is no evidence supporting Nicolás Maduro’s claim of a supposed incursion.
Sturge mentioned that the Chief of Defense Staff of Trinidad, Darryl Daniel, informed him that the country’s radar equipment did not detect such activity and emphasized that they take all threats seriously and will continue investigations.
The military chief of the Caribbean nation also noted that they have evidence of members of the “Tren de Aragua” being present in Trinidad and Tobago.
The Statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry
On June 6, 2025, the Foreign Ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela issued a statement expressing its “deep astonishment at the irate and unjustified reaction of Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in response to the legitimate complaint made by President Nicolás Maduro Moros regarding the entry of criminal elements from Trinidadian territory into Venezuela.”
The statement noted the capture of Trinidadian criminals who allegedly confessed to their plans, indicating that it would have been appropriate for the authorities of Trinidad and Tobago to offer their “cooperation and willingness to clarify the facts.”
The Foreign Ministry characterized the Prime Minister’s behavior as “virulent and lofty,” adding that it “raises serious suspicions of complicity with that incursion and jeopardizes the good cooperative relations existing” between the two countries.
The statement concludes with a call to the authorities of Trinidad and Tobago to “not engage in geopolitical games that are foreign to the interests of our peoples” and to follow diplomatic avenues, “not through threats or unfounded declarations that only fuel artificial tensions.”
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