Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez delivers her address at the Productive Venezuela 2030 Business Expo in Caracas, October 22, 2025. Photo: VTV.
The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, criticized Trinidad and Tobago’s open support for the US military escalation in the Caribbean targeting Venezuela.
“Marco Rubio is selling false promises to the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, a country with which we have agreements to export gas,” Rodríguez said on Wednesday, October 22, in her address at the Productive Venezuela 2030 Business Expo. “If Venezuela does not export gas to Trinidad, the country’s economy will collapse, and that will impact the Caribbean.”
She added that the United States sanctioned the Petrocaribe program through which Venezuela used to supply cheap fuel to Caribbean nations, and one of the countries most affected was Haiti. In this context, she decried that the US is trying to do the same with Trinidad and Tobago by selling the government of the country the “false promise” of “taking Venezuela’s gas and giving it to Trinidad. Do you think that is possible? It is a distraction.”
“I address the people of Trinidad and Tobago from here, and we say this responsibly: your prime minister is leading you over a cliff by believing that Marco Rubio will be able to give her gas from Venezuela,” Rodríguez emphasized.
“Venezuela’s gas must be paid for; every molecule exported—not only to Trinidad and Tobago but also to other neighboring countries,” she added. “This is international cooperation; these are natural trade relations. Anything else is unnatural and does not exist.”
She emphasized that the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is being deceived and is deceiving an entire country. “She is deceiving the business sectors of Trinidad and Tobago, and they will be left empty-handed,” Rodríguez remarked. “They need gas from Venezuela, and the only way to get it is through the Venezuelan government, through the Venezuelan state—there is no other way. It is not Marco Rubio who is going to give gas to Trinidad and Tobago; it is Venezuela.”
The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has taken a stance in favor of the US military deployment in the Caribbean. She went as far as publicily stating her wish that the US would “kill them all” when it began its campaign of extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean waters in early September.
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On September 11, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez had pointed out that the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana are lending themselves to the United States’ plans against Venezuela, thereby placing themselves at the service of the US empire’s designs against Latin America and the Caribbean.
Four days later, on September 15, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in a press conference with national and international media, condemned the threats made by the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago against Venezuela.
“Simply put, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago has gone crazy, threatening us that from Trinidad and Tobago she would authorize attacks against Venezuela, almost declaring war on Venezuela. I am sure that the people of Trinidad and Tobago are completely against it; we are neighboring countries,” President Maduro said at the time.
Trinidadians have also been victims of the US military deployment in the region. On October 16, Trinidadian media reported the deaths of two Trinidadian citizens (fishers) in a US attack on a vessel in the Caribbean two days earlier.
In September 2023, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago signed an inter-institutional agreement to develop the Dragon Gas Field with the aim of promoting joint projects in the oil and gas sector.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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