Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar confirmed her government allowed installing a U.S. radar system to help combat the movement of sanctioned Venezuelan oil, drug trafficking, firearms, ammunition and irregular migration.
The radar was placed at the new A.N.R. Robinson International Airport on the island of Tobago, a strategic location facing Venezuela's eastern coast.
In a press statement, the prime minister said violent crime in Trinidad and Tobago over the past decade has been driven by the local drug-trafficking mafia and by Venezuelan criminal collaborators evading sanctions, the Trinidad Guardian reported.
"When we took office, we found a radar system that operated sporadically and inefficiently and did not cover our entire territory. Our Coast Guard could not even access real-time data, and the system had been compromised," she said.
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