IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE U.S. ATTACK ON VENEZUELA, WHAT WILL NOW HAPPEN TO THE FOUR PRO-MADURO LABOUR GOVERNMENTS IN POWER IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN?

The American action in Venezuela, against military targets and the country's authoritarian leader, NICOLAS MADURO, will have an immediate effect upon the four Eastern Caribbean "CBI" states, all with leftist Labour governments, that are politically allied with the Venezuelan regime, Saint Kitts and Nevis,Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica and Saint Lucia.While we will have to see what their response Will their endangered Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) programs, under increasing attack, both directly and indirectly, by the U.S., become a casualty of this new aggressive American foreign policy in the Caribbean?

We cannot say, but remembering the U.S. military action in Grenada in the 1980s, which was also in response to a perceived national security threat, these Caribbean states, today's action in Venezuela was not a total surprise. The question is what the impact will be in the Eastern Caribbean, and is this the death knell for CBI in the region, and an existential threat to the existing government.