DLP defers to CARICOM on Venezuelan crisis

The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has declined to comment directly on the US removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, instead emphasising the need for a coordinated regional response.

The party has kept mum on the rapidly evolving situation in Venezuela, where the United States has removed President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cillia Flores, and assumed temporary control of the country.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday at the opposition leader’s office in Hincks Street, Bridgetown, Ralph Thorne stressed the party’s commitment to regional coordination.

“We are regionalist and CARICOM is the authoritative voice on that matter, we will defer to CARICOM,” he said, offering no direct comment on the US operation.

The Trump administration announced on Saturday that it had taken President Maduro in an overnight military raid, transporting him and his wife aboard a US warship to New York to face criminal charges related to what Washington has described as a “narco-terrorism” conspiracy.