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Maduro Suspends Trinidad And Tobago Gas Accord Over US Warship Visit

 

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.

 

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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.”

 

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