US to hold new military drills in Trinidad and Tobago amid tensions with Venezuela

Source: CNN World

Updated Nov 15, 2025, 7:51 AM ET
PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2025, 6:50 AM ET


The United States will hold new military drills in Trinidad and Tobago for five days starting Sunday, the Caribbean nation says. The announcement followed a move by the US last month to send a guided-missile destroyer to the country for training exercises, a step that nearby Venezuela denounced as a “military provocation.”

On Thursday, Trinidad and Tobago’s attorney general was quoted by the Financial Times as saying that the US would “intensify” exercises in the twin-island nation, which sits a few miles off the coast of Venezuela.

Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign minister Sean Sobers on Friday denied that next week’s exercises would be a precursor to any potential US military action near the country, particularly in Venezuela.

While there are signs of unease globally over US action in the region, the Caribbean nation’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has championed US presence and has feuded with Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.

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