"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."
"Cancelling the gas deal, Maduro accused Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of transforming the Caribbean nation into an aircraft carrier of the American empire against Venezuela. Trinidad and Tobago ran out of gas before Venezuela had agreed to help it with the deal, Maduro asserted. Persad-Bissessar pushed back, telling Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday newspaper that the country's future does not depend on Venezuela and never has."
"She added that her government has been moving away from reliance on the long-delayed joint Dragon gasfield, which sits in Venezuelan waters near Trinidad. The last government mistakenly placed all their hopes in the Dragon project. We have not done so, Persad-Bissessar said. This means that the government is not susceptible to any blackmail from the Venezuelans for political support, she asserted."
Venezuela suspended a major natural gas supply deal with Trinidad and Tobago after Trinidad hosted a United States warship. President Nicolas Maduro accused the presence of US warships near Venezuelan waters of constituting a military threat aimed at stealing Venezuelan oil and gas wealth and accused Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of enabling US power in the region. Persad-Bissessar rejected dependence on Venezuelan gas and said Trinidad and Tobago has been moving away from reliance on the long-delayed Dragon gasfield. Venezuelan authorities described the hosting of the USS Gravely as a provocation, while the island government defended planned joint exercises.
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