Our Prime Minister told US Ambassador to mind himself, opposition response

Our Prime Minister is one of the few leaders in the world to continue to support Maduro in Venezuela. The US is now looking into the fact we may have shipped fuel, against US embargo guidelines. When our ambassador questioned his relationship, the PM of Trinidad told him "who is the US to tell us what to do". The opposition (who will win the election this fall) responded, you can guess who is MAGA...

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There are more than 200,000 Trinidad and Tobago citizens who hold United States visas which can be seriously impacted;This will gravely affect their ability to visit the US for study, tourism, cultural and trade-related activities;

The US has a large Trinidad and Tobago Diaspora who can similarly be affected negatively by being unable to move freely between the countries;

Seventy percent of all our food is imported from the US at an annual cost of over US$1 billion (TT$7 billion);
Any US sanctions, especially in a post-COVID-19 world, can therefore deeply affect our already precarious food supply;The current widespread hunger crisis will, therefore, seem like a joke;

Trinidad and Tobago exports more than US$2.7 billion (TT$18.9 billion) annually to the US in the energy sector. Any sanctions can, therefore, deplete our already deeply strained revenue stream, potentially causing an irreversible economic crisis;

Sanctions can cause Trinidad and Tobago to lose out on its privileged status as the biggest beneficiary of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), under which we receive trade preferences;

These grant duty and quota-free access to the US to the tune of US$400 million (TT$2.8 billion) annually;
Participation in CBI requires, among other things, a waiver of certain World Trade Organization (WTO) conditions;

Trinidad and Tobago current waiver will expire in 2021 and the US president and Congress have to approve renewing the agreement;

The CBI also grants Trinidad and Tobago very important technical advice and cooperation on border control, Customs and Excise and mutual assistance.

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She didnt mention the US could cut us out of the financial system and we would starve to death in a week, every transaction is done in wired US cash.