(Jamaica Observer) – FORMER Prime Minister Bruce Golding has described as “most disheartening” the “muted international response” to the actions of US President Donald Trump in Venezuela, saying that the American chief executive “has succeeded in intimidating most of the universe and even major countries in Europe are afraid of incurring his wrath”.
Additionally, Golding said the current geopolitical developments have placed Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries in a vice, as “taking a principled stance against Trump’s rampaging would almost certainly invite retribution”.
Golding, who served as Jamaica’s head of Government from September 2007 to October 2011, made the comments in a column published in today’s edition of the Jamaica Observer in the aftermath of the US strike on Venezuela last week during which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were seized and flown to the US.
Maduro has been accused of narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. He appeared in a US court in New York on Monday and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
