Venezuela suspended the gas agreement it had with Trinidad and Tobago, hours after Port of Spain hosted a United States warship for military exercises
Caracas and Port of Spain signed a broad cooperation agreement on gas in 2015 that President Nicolás Maduro decided to break when he considered that his neighbor had added to the “threat” of US operations in the Caribbean.
«I have approved the precautionary measure of immediate suspension of all the effects of the energy agreement and everything agreed on that matter. It is a precautionary measure to which I have the power as president and I have approved and signed. “Everything suspended!” said Maduro on his television program.
The Trinidadian Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is a “bawd who promotes war due to her own personal, physical, mental and moral weaknesses,” Maduro previously indicated.
Trinidad and Tobago supports the operation that the United States deployed with seven warships off the coast of Venezuela with the argument of combating drug trafficking.
The archipelago hosted the USS Gravely (DDG-107) on Sunday to carry out joint exercises with Washington, in the middle of its operations.
The Ministry of Hydrocarbons, whose head is the vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, recommended Maduro hours before breaking the energy agreement.
The prime minister “decided to convert the territory of this brother country into a United States aircraft carrier, into a military colony of the United States to lend itself to the war plan against Venezuela and it is a war for oil and gas,” said Rodríguez.
*Also read: Rodríguez proposes suspending gas agreements with Trinidad after US exercises
“Our future does not depend on Venezuela”
The bilateral relationship between Venezuela and Trinidad has deteriorated since Persad-Bissessar came to power with a speech against Venezuelan migration and closely aligned with Washington.
Before the suspension, the Trinidadian prime minister told AFP that her country is not susceptible to “any political blackmail.”
“Our future does not depend on Venezuela and never has,” Persad-Bissessar told AFP in a text message.
The Trinidadian leader assured that she has not held any meeting with Venezuela on energy issues so far. He also announced during a television broadcast that he will extend the state of emergency in force since July to combat gang violence.
Trinidad recently received US authorization to exploit a field in Venezuela very close to the common border, after operations were paralyzed in April due to the oil embargo that has weighed on Caracas since 2019.
The USS Gravely will be in Trinidad until October 30. It is one of the vessels that President Donald Trump mobilized to the Caribbean and which will be joined in the coming days by the aircraft carrier “USS Gerald R. Ford”, the largest in the world.
“Criminal cell” linked to the CIA
Venezuela reported earlier that it dismantled an alleged “criminal cell” linked to the CIA that sought to attack the “USS Gravely” to incriminate Caracas.
“A criminal cell financed by the CIA linked to this covert operation is being dismantled in our territory,” said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil in a statement.
The Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, announced four arrests related to the case without revealing identities.
“We have already discovered and dismantled three terrorist operations,” said Maduro.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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