Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC)—Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the presence of United States military troops in the region has already contributed to a “significant reduction in the trafficking of guns, drugs, and humans” into Trinidad and Tobago, even as the Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro warned that the twin island republic’s joint military drills with the North American country could “threaten peace” in the Caribbean.

Members of the US 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) on Sunday began a week-long joint training exercise with the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF), with Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar saying that the collaboration reflects the “

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