Maduro halts energy deals with Trinidad

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One Caribbean Nation.

Maduro halts energy deals with Trinidad
VENEZUELA
Venezuela on Monday suspended energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago, over what officials have described as "hostile" actions by the island nation.
Trinidad is now hosting one of the US warships involved in a controversial campaign to destroy Venezuelan speedboats allegedly carrying drugs to the United States.
During his weekly television show on Monday night, President Nicolas Maduro accused Trinidad of acting as the "aircraft carrier of the US empire" and said that he was left with no choice but to pull out of treaties signed with Trinidad ten years ago.
The announcement came hours after the nation's vice president, who is also Venezuela's minister of hydrocarbons, had suggested the agreements should be cancelled.
On Sunday, the USS Gravely, a destroyer fitted with guided missiles, arrived in Trinidad to conduct joint exercises with Trinidad's navy.
Venezuelan authorities described Trinidad's decision to host the ship as a provocation, while Trinidad's government has said that joint exercises with the United States happen regularly.
"The prime minister of Trinidad has decided to join the war-mongering agenda of the United States," Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said on national television.
In text messages to The Associated Press, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she was not concerned over the potential cancellation of the energy agreements, adding that the military training exercises were exclusively for "internal security" purposes.
"Our future does not depend on Venezuela and never has," Persad-Bissessar wrote. "We have our plans and projects to grow our economy both within the energy and non-energy sectors."
(Associated Press)

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