Venezuela charges captain but boat, crew let go

Photo taken from http://verdadesvenezuela.com

Venezuela yesterday released a ship it had arrested in Guyana’s waters on Thursday and while the crew was also freed its captain was charged with violating the boundaries of a “security zone” thereby setting the stage for what is likely to be a prickly meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries in Trinidad tomorrow.

Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is to meet her Venezuelan counterpart Elias Jaua at 2 pm in Port of Spain

With Guyana insisting that the ship was in this country’s 200-mile Exclu-sive Economic Zone (EEZ) and Venezuela now