(CMC) — Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has announced the “immediate” suspension of energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago, a few hours after his Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, said a formal proposal had been submitted to him to suspend the Energy Cooperation Framework Agreement with Port of Spain.
During his weekly television show on Monday night, Maduro accused Trinidad and Tobago of acting as the “aircraft carrier of the US empire” and said that he was left with no choice but to pull out of treaties signed with the country 10 years ago.
Maduro said that Trinidad and Tobago “ran out” of gas before Venezuela had agreed to help it with the deal.
But Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has dismissed Venezuela’s suspension, saying Port of Spain will continue to pursue its own energy and economic strategies.
“Our future does not depend on Venezuela and never has. We have our plans and projects to grow our economy both within the energy and non-energy sectors,” she added.
Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago first agreed to jointly drill for gas in 2018. However, the project has been long delayed and complicated by United States sanctions on Venezuela.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last month that the US supports the Trinidad Government’s Dragon gas proposal but it would take steps to ensure it will not provide significant benefit to Maduro’s Government.
The Dragon gasfield is reported to have 119 billion cubic metres (4.2 trillion cubic feet) of gas.
Last month, United States President Donald Trump ramped up US military presence in the Caribbean Sea ordering an amphibious squadron to the southern Caribbean as part of his effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels.
A nuclear-powered attack submarine, additional P8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft, several destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser have also been allocated to US Southern Command as part of the mission.
The United States military has carried out deadly airstrikes in Caribbean waters over the past few weeks against what Washington alleges are Caracas-backed drug traffickers. The Venezuelan Government denies the charge, accusing the administration of being a threat to the peace and security of the whole region.
Trinidad and Tobago has come out in full support for the US action, with Persad-Bissessar already indicating that the drug traffickers should be killed “violently”.
On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto told the United Nations General Assembly that the US has an “illegal and completely immoral military threat hanging over our heads”.
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Again, yet again, the American destruction of a few dope/drug boats in the area is not about stopping #Fen_Heads, #Crack_heads, #heroin_zoms to #metadone_mills (legal churches) from getting their daily fixes of unprescribed dope.
The #Big_Pharma Dope Mill is still churning out billions of tabs per second to feed their addicted clients, that their henchfolks in the legal opioid centers.
The battles in the southern Caribbean which are affecting such things, as signed Treaties are about CRUDE OIL and GAS.
Trinidad & Tobago, and Guyana are now heavily depending on the USA, and the same Warmongers and Gangsters, that we love to complain about, as they use and show off their might.
On the other hand, China the aggressive and emerging giant battling America for GLOBAL DOMINANCE has thrown the gauntlet down right in front of America’s face in her backyard by backing and support a Venezuela.
Donald trump’s fake moves with the destruction of a few dope boats is as effective, as Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs from the 1980’s. So, to put Trump’s strategy into perspective in terms of usefulness, as in stopping America dope addicts from getting their fixes, PLEASE LET THIS SINK IN, in America there are an average of 75,000 deaths from illegal drug overdose. The figure. It gets up to over a hundred thousand, if, if, if, if, and when the CDC make hospitals and other medical facilities report overdoses, as they should.
OIL & GAS are also vices of addiction!
Let’s hope, that the Caribbean/South America don’t become the Middle East of the West.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
Good grief!
I endorse the suspension
TNT will definitely get its gas from somewhere else. As it stands Maduro is the one who needs us to buy his gas to feed his people in Venezuela. Hold your side Kamala! Arwe nah fraid he
How she end up in that tie-up tho
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