NATIONAL LEADERS FROM ST. KITTS, GRENADA AND BARBADOS FAILURE TO RESPOND TO SYMBOLIC THREAT HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED BY THE UNITED STATES

The leaders of the now polarized Caribbean nations have now lined up on one side or the other; one side is composed of states politically aligned with the United States, and the other of countries that have chosen to affiliate with the autocracies of Venezuela, China and Cuba. Unfortunately, for financial, self-serving or philosophical reasons, all five of the EC states that offer economic citizenships have seen fit to throw in their lot with the dictatorships of the world, and such associations have consequences in Washington, which their leaders must certainly realize.
Recently, the President of Venezuela, DELCY RODRIGUEZ, held meetings abroad with the Prime Ministers of both Grenada and Barbados, and at those public meetings, she prominently wore a controversial brooch that featured a map of her native country's discredited claim to a large portion of territory of neighboring Guyana, which is a close associate of the United States. This bold display of a known Venezuelan territorial claim that was found to be without legal merit in 1899 is a thinly-disguised military threat to an American ally. 
Bogus territorial claims are how wars start, and dictators often advance them against weaker nations, resulting in armed conflicts that kill thousands, and destroy peacetime economies. This is not the future anyone wants for the Caribbean. 
To make matters worse, public complaints made to the current leader of the regional alliance, CARICOM, St.Kitts & Nevis PM TERRANCE DREW, have been completely ignored; Drew is a known ally and supporter of Venezuela, Cuba and China. CARICOM is supposed to support territorial integrity of its members, and peaceful solutions in the region. Drew's inaction shows his political alliance with the dictatorship in Venezuela trumps his duty and loyalty. He has essentially and arrogantly betrayed the members of CARICOM. 
And do not think for one moment that the U.S. State Department did not see that MIA MOTTLEY, DICKON MITCHELL and TERRANCE DREW have chosen sides with the Venezuelan autocracy, and that their cooperation with Venezuela, in the past and presently, did not go unnoticed in the greater diplomatic scheme of things. It was noticed throughout the Caribbean as well.