Venezuela’s vice president said Monday that energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago should be canceled over what she 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.
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 US happen regularly.
The prime minister of Trinidad has decided to join the war mongering agenda of the United States, Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on national television Monday.
Rodriguez, who is also Venezuela’s minister of hydrocarbons, said she would ask President Nicolas Maduro to withdraw from a 2015 agreement that enables neighboring count
