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Caribbean & Central America - December 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Assassination plot highlights divisions
On 23 November, Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that an assassination plot against her and three cabinet ministers had been uncovered two weeks earlier but that she was unable at this stage to provide full details because of the ongoing security operation. In her initial statement, the prime minister emphasised that the plot proved that the government’s anti-crime drive was having an impact, seeming to confirm a security rather than a political purpose. However, in Trinidad & Tobago crime is a political issue, and a racial one too, and it took no time at all for both politics and race to surface in the reactions to the plot.
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