Venezuelan Minister Condemns Caribbean Leaders Over US Strike Support

Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power for Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, has criticized leaders of Trinidad and the Dominican Republic, referring to them as a ‘drunk woman’ and a ‘stupid crook’ respectively. His remarks were in response to their support for a recent US military strike on an alleged drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, which the US claims resulted in the death of 11 ‘narco-terrorists’. Cabello condemned the attack as an illegal massacre in violation of international law and the right to life, referring to it as barbarism. He further questioned the legality of the US action, and the information provided by its officials. In contrast, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad had praised the strike, stating that US forces should ‘violently’ eliminate all drug traffickers.