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.”

A U.S. military ship on Sunday docked in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, amid tensions in the Caribbean sparked by U.S. military action against boats accused of attempting to smuggle fentanyl