US Radar in Trinidad: 'Road Project' or Pre-Invasion Scouting?
Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, dismissed concerns about a US C-17 aircraft landing with marines, claiming it was for a 'road construction project.' This narrative would be almost believable if the US hadn't spent the last century 'building roads' (or 'fighting drugs' or 'promoting democracy') while simultaneously undermining governments in Latin America—see: Chile
1973, Nicaragua 1980s, Grenada 1983. A radar system near Venezuela isn't for paving highways; it's for keeping tabs on a resource-rich nation the US has long sought to destabilize. One might wonder if the US also believes drone strikes are just 'aerial surveys for future infrastructure development.' The sheer audacity of the 'road project' claim, alongside reports of opposition concerns about the
nation's 'soul' being sold, paints a clearer picture than the Guardian's passive 'stoked fears' headline. This isn't about roads; it's about strategic positioning against Venezuela, masked with the thinnest veil of plausible deniability. How many 'construction projects' end with regime change?