PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro’s trip to T&T two weeks ago followed the visits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice President Joe Biden to T&T in May.
Energy, transportation, security and building bridges with South America’s Mercosur trade bloc were some of the main issues on the agenda when Maduro visited T&T on the final day of the three-day meeting of the 34th meeting of Caricom heads of government in Port-of-Spain on July 6. This is not the first time that Venezuela and its English-speaking CARICOM neighbours have met to deepen trade and other economic-related activities.