Trinidad and Tobago has declared its support for the U.S. Navy's recent deployment near Venezuela and said it would allow American forces to use its territory if president Nicolás Maduro were to attack neighboring Guyana, with which it currently has a heated territorial dispute.
The remarks follow Washington D.C.'s decision to deploy three Navy destroyers along with an amphibious squadron to the southern Caribbean to conduct counternarcotics operations. The Trump administration framed the mission as an effort to dismantle "terrorist drug cartels," while Maduro announced plans to mobilize more than 4.5 million militia members and sign up more to "defend national sovereignty."
