Andrew Sage

So there have been seven strikes to date, and the fifth strike resulted in the deaths of two fishermen from the village of Las Cuevas in Trinidad and Tobago being claimed among the victims.

The government of Trinidad and Tobago has not made a statement about it, and the families have not really been contacted or provided any sort of support.

Now, for those who are listening who may not know where Trinidad and Tobago is,

It is an independent twin island Republic in the Caribbean, and it's actually geographically an extension of South America.

There's a Gulf that separates it, but it's about 11 kilometers away from Venezuela itself.

And our elections that took place this year led to the removal of the incumbent party and the return of the United National Congress, the political party, led by Kamala Prasad Bisesa, claiming the government in a sweep, a landslide really.

But despite that landslide, it wasn't really the result of popular support for the United National Congress.

It was more so the lack of support for the previous party, the People's National Movement, which lost, I believe, 200,000 or so of their usual voters.

This didn't show up to vote for them this election.

So the opposition party came into power.

When the opposition party was in the opposition, they in many ways appeared to just oppose for opposing sake.

They were in power previously from 2010 to 2015, but they were voted out due to, among other things, corruption.

And since then, the party has further evolved into a sort of

personality cult centered around Kamala Prasad Prasad and her politics have also evolved in that time to align further and further toward the United States position.

She's become something of a Trump stan, you know, she was kind of towing his line on a lot of issues.

She supported Guaido, Juan Guaido as the president of Venezuela.

And actually went so far while she was an opposition leader to call on the United States to sanction Trinidad and Tobago after the vice president of Venezuela had made a visit to the country to meet with the then prime minister, Keith Rowley.

So she has made her pro-Washington stance clear for a very long time.

And as she's come into power, she has...

Diverted our alignment with our regional bloc, the Caribbean community, CARICOM, and their call for the Caribbean to remain a zone of peace and emphasized her continued endorsement for the U.S.