GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – CARICOM leaders met early on Saturday to discuss the United States invasion of Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
A brief statement issued by the CARICOM Secretariat said that the 15-member regional integration grouping “is actively monitoring the situation which is of grave concern to the Region with possible implications for neighbouring countries.
“CARICOM will continue to update the people of the region as more information is received,” the two-paragraph statement added.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar said Saturday that Trinidad and Tobago did not participate in the US military action against Venezuela leading to Washington’s claim that Maduro has been captured and taken out of the country.
“Earlier this morning, Saturday, 3rd January 2026, the United States commenced military operations within the territory of Venezuela. Trinidad and Tobago is NOT a participant in any of these ongoing military operations,” Persad Bissessar said in a statement posted on X.
“Trinidad and Tobago continues to maintain peaceful relations with the people of Venezuela,” she added.
Persad Bissessar has been openly in support of the United States plan to deal with what it termed the illegal drugs trade, even as CARICOM had been calling for the region to be maintained as a “Zone of Peace”.
Maduro had on Saturday declared a state of emergency over what his government called an “extremely serious military aggression” by the United States on the capital Caracas.
Multiple explosions, accompanied by sounds resembling aircraft flyovers, were heard around the city.
“Venezuela rejects, repudiates, and denounces before the international community the extremely serious military aggression perpetrated by the current government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and people,” the government said.
But US President Donald Trump said in a statement that Maduro and his wife, had been captured in the “large scale” strike against the country and they have been flown out of the country.
Let’s be real: the U.S. acts like it has a right to whatever it wants. See a country with oil? Watch as they engineer its downfall and take control. And the audacity? They fund it all by printing cash the rest of the world is forced to accept. It’s a system built on taking. You start to understand the rage of someone like Osama bin Laden. However monstrous his actions, his stated cause was rooted in watching this cycle of exploitation and lashing out against it.
God bless Donald Trump for removing this corrupt and bloodthirsty dictator who wickedly stole the last two election to stay in office!
Almighty God, direct your disciple Donald Trump to remove next the communist dictators in Cuba and Nicaragua!
All freedom and personal responsibility loving people should pray for the removal of these thuggish communists so the people of the world can individually maximize their God-given talents and aspirations.
Communism is just another word for slavery; capitalism is the only true road to peace, prosperity, and liberty for one and all.
One day , one day is conquer day, soon or later we will have to pay, what ever a man sow that shall he reap .
We created this monster. Our silence, our complicity, and our fear fed it. Our fractured resolve fuels its appetite for dominance. It is the relentless pursuit of empire, draped in the flag of liberty. It’s a propaganda machine that sanitises mass death into mere policy. And if we do not now reclaim the truth and name this crime, that monster will inevitably turn and consume us all.