U.S. Ignoring Carribean During War on Terror?

PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning yesterday said the United States is ignoring the security threats facing the Caribbean region and Trinidad and Tobago may have to consider shifting its LNG exports away from the US to emerging markets in Latin America.

Addressing the inaugural British Gas energy luncheon at the Hilton Trinidad, the Prime Minister said TT remains very concerned about regional security and about the fact that the US’ emphasis on combating global terrorism has placed its war against drug traffickers “on the backburner.”

Manning added that South American drug cartels have not reduced their activities in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US and “we are now seeing a heightened use of Caribbean countries as transshipment centres” as drugs move from South America to the US and Western Europe.
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