Once again CARICOM has been undermined when Jamaica PM Holness and leaders of St. Lucia, Haiti and the Bahamas broke with CARICOM agreement to side with racist US President Trump over Venezuela.
On January 24, every one of the CARICOM leaders agreed to the following statement.:
Caribbean Heads of Government are following closely the current unsatisfactory situation in Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a neighbouring Caribbean country. They expressed grave concern about the plight of the people of Venezuela and the increasing volatility of the situation brought about by recent developments which could lead to further violence, confrontation, breakdown of law and order and greater suffering for the people of the country.
Heads of Government reaffirmed their guiding principles of non-interference and non-intervention in the affairs of states, respect for sovereignty, adherence to the rule of law, and respect for human rights and democracy. | |
Heads of Government reiterated that the long-standing political crisis, which has been exacerbated by recent events, can only be resolved peacefully through meaningful dialogue and diplomacy. | |
Heads of Government called on external forces to refrain from doing anything to destabilize the situation and underscored the need to step back from the brink and called on all actors, internal and external, to avoid actions which would escalate an already explosive situation to the detriment of the people of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and which could have far-reaching negative consequences for the wider region.” |
Moreover, the Government of Venezuela (under Chavez and Maduro) has been a magnanimous friend of Jamaica. The PetroCaribe Agreement, which is the economic centrepiece of Venezuelan assistance to Jamaica, is built on the principle that we shall have access to Venezuelan petroleum products at concessionary rates. (See: Jamaica's economy gets US$5 billion from PetroCaribe over 13 years )
But obviously, that meant nothing to the Jamaican PM and the other three who met with the hateful, vindictive racist Trump at his private residence to discuss Venezuela. (I wonder if they had to enter through the back door or servant's entrance.) Racist Trump has been seeking to remove the elected President Maduro from office in favour of the Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself the interim president of the South American country.
PM Holness described the meeting as ‘promising”. This seems incredibly naïve and gullible when we consider Trump’s racism, his reputation for barefaced lying, his smearing of Mexicans as rapists, his hatred for Muslims and immigrants to America and his disrespect for countries like Jamaica that he refers to as “shithole countries”. He is a proven liar as evidenced by the Washington Post fact-checking that “in 787 days, President Trump made 9,179 false or misleading claims”.
The vindictive egomaniac Trump must have had a field day barking orders at that meeting. When he said “jump”, I wonder how high Holness did go. However, I fear that Jamaica’s independence and sovereignty has been completely undermined and CARICOM severely damaged.
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