Maduro Suspends Trinidad And Tobago Gas Accord Over US Warship Visit

Maduro announced the "immediate suspension" of the energy agreement in a televised address.

By Channels Television

Updated October 28, 2025

The USS Gravely warship enters the port of Port of Spain on October 26, 2025. The US warship will visit Trinidad and Tobago for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela amid Washington’s campaign against alleged drug traffickers in the region.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday announced he had suspended an energy agreement with Trinidad and Tobago in response to the neighboring island nation’s welcoming of a US warship.

Maduro announced the “immediate suspension” of the energy agreement in a televised address, accusing Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of transforming her nation “into an aircraft carrier of the American empire against Venezuela.”

AFP