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Venezuelan Justice Minister: ‘this is just the beginning’
– says TT, condemned its fishermen to death at Sea
Venezuelan minister of Popular Power for Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello
Trinidad Express – Venezuelan minister of Popular Power for Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello says Trinidad and Tobago’s and other Caribbean fishermen are being condemned to execution at sea as a result of the Trinidadian government’s decision to align with the US post its lethal strike in Caribbean waters.
Speaking on Venezuelan television during a weekly programme on Wednesday night, Cabello made reference to a ‘drunk woman’ governing Trinidad, and a ‘stupid crook’ in the Dominican Republic, stating that these countries’ people were being condemned.
“This is just starting. For example, the stupid crook who governs the Dominican Republic and the drunk woman who governs Trinidad, when they arrive and leave a drunk they side with this attack, they are condemning their people to be executed at sea. Their fishermen are being condemned to execution,’ he said.
His comments come after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar praised a US military strike on an alleged drug carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean which the White House claimed earlier this week killed 11 ‘narco terrorists’ who were part of the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang. Persad-Bissessar who earlier welcomed the US’ military presence in the Caribbean earlier stated that US forces should kill all drug traffickers ‘violently.’
Cabello on Wednesday cited numerous reports of the event in international media, claiming that questions were beginning to arise on the US’ action, its legality and the information provided by its officials.
On the vessel, depicted in flames in footage released by the US after the strike was announced on Tuesday, he said it was a ‘little boat’ that looked as if it were a fisherman’s boat.
Holding up photos comparing a ship to the vessel, he said, “Some media are already appearing on their screens in English and other languages, talking about the small boat. They no longer speak of a ship, there is one they call a little boat. Here in Venezuela we are waging a real fight against drugs. Now from all this and what I have gathered this is a ship right? And what about this? This is a fisherman,” he said.
US Strike on Venezuelan ‘drug-carrying’ vessel
Stating that he had a lot of doubts on the situation, he said that if it had occurred as described by the US, it could be viewed as an ‘assassination’ and ‘murder’.
“Their own laws prohibit it. And the right to defence of those who were there? I mean the video they are saying is evidence against them. They assassinated a group of people and I saw five but they said 11. But that is what they are declaring, their murder is a blunder. You can’t utter a blunder in your own defence. You’re confessing that you committed a crime,” he said.
Reading from a written statement, he referred to the strike as nothing more than an illegal massacre in international waters.
“They violated international law, violated their own laws and they violated a basic principle- the right to life. This was not justice, this was barbarism. An imperial act that pretends to impose itself as an example but that once again exposes the double standards of the Washington Administration. They talk about democracy and human rights while they practise summary executions at sea,” he said.
He said that Venezuela was not complicit in drug trafficking or executions at high sea. However he said he would be happy if the US embarked upon an internal crusade to take down cartels.
“The whole world would have apathy, but not even in the movies have we ever seen one stop or take down of a drug cartel in the United States and it is the country in the world where the inhabitants consume it the most,” he said.
Alexander: ‘A mad man’
Responding to Cabello’s comments in a Post Cabinet media briefing yesterday, Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander called Cabello a ‘mad man.’
“Of course you are calling people names. We don’t do that here. If he can identify, maybe he is like that too or he is a mad man. It would be fair if I say to him because of what is happening now with the United States, that he is facilitating drugs in this country? Is he a drug pusher? Is he a pimp?” he said.
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