Venezuela suspended energy cooperation with Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 27 after the twin-island nation allowed a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer to dock in its waters for joint military training.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said in televised remarks that he had authorized the suspension of Venezuela’s energy cooperation agreements with Trinidad and Tobago, including a 2015 accord for joint natural gas exploration in waters between the two nations.
Maduro said that his decision was prompted by what he described as Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s threat to turn the island nation into “the U.S. empire’s aircraft carrier against Venezuela.”…