Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the immediate suspension of a major natural-gas agreement with Trinidad and Tobago, accusing the Caribbean nation of aligning itself with the United States after it received a U.

As a U.S. warship docked in Trinidad & Tobago for what the country's government called “training exercises,” Venezuela lashed out, accusing T&T Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of acting like a “military colony.”

Trinidad and Tobago, in a deepening diplomatic row with Caracas over US military activity in the Caribbean, was on Tuesday mulling a "mass deportation" of undocumented migrants -- most of whom are Venezuelans -- from its territory.

HOUSTON/CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela is seeking location and other details from Trinidad and Tobago about the first field tests to be conducted by Exxon Mobil in an ultra-deepwater area it was recently awarded in the Caribbean country,

As the United States expands what is already the largest military deployment the Caribbean has seen in decades, Venezuela’s socialist regime is warning that it could retaliate against Trinidad and Tobago if the island nation assists Washington in any attack on Venezuelan territory.

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said that her country will not be “held to ransom” as she accused some Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries of siding with Venezuela over the ongoing security situation in the region.

A U.S. warship arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday, prompting a Venezuelan official to accuse the neighboring Caribbean government of conducting "a military provocation" with the CIA. The big picture: President Trump said earlier this month that he authorized the CIA to secretly conduct operations in Venezuela against drug cartels,