Caracas asserts that US actions in the Caribbean are a military threat and are meant to steal its oil and gas wealth.
Venezuela has suspended a major gas deal with neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago, citing the island nation’s reception of a United States warship.
President Nicolas Maduro ordered the “immediate suspension” of a deal to provide natural gas to Trinidad and Tobago, state broadcaster TeleSUR reported on Monday.
The island is hosting one of several US warships deployed near Venezuelan waters by President Donald Trump’s administration. Venezuelan officials have accused the US president of seeking regime change.
Cancelling the gas deal, Maduro accused Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of transforming the
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