One of the U.S. military campaign’s staunchest supporters, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is accusing two fellow Caribbean leaders of triggering visa restrictions for their citizens by “bad-mouthing the U.S.” over American strikes on vessels in the southern Caribbean. The U.S. military build up, which began in September and has since expanded to the eastern Pacific, has led to the deaths of at least 104 people Washington says were drug traffickers.
“Why are you badmouthing the people? You want to go to the people’s country, but you want to badmouth them. Isn’t that hypocrisy?” Persad-Bissessar said from Port-of-Spain Friday as she warned her 1.5 million residents to “behave.”
More than 250,000 Trinidadians and Toboggans live in the United States, she said, while over 300,000 hold U.S. visas. “Careful you don’t end up like Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica, who bad-mouthed the U.S. and guess what happened? All their visas are restricted now. They’ve cut their visas.”
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