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A month af­ter the cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, there is still no in­di­ca­tion of how Venezuela’s act­ing gov­ern­ment in­tends to en­gage with Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing a break­down in diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions late last year.

In late 2025, Venezuela sev­ered ties with Trinidad and To­ba­go, de­clared Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar per­sona non gra­ta and halt­ed ne­go­ti­a­tions on en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion.

Since the Jan­u­ary 3 US airstrikes and the sub­se­quent cap­ture of Maduro and his wife, Venezuela’s act­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion, led by Del­cy Ro­dríguez, has re­mained pub­licly silent on its fu­ture re­la­tion­ship with Trinidad and To­ba­go. There has been no in­di­ca­tion on whether diplo­mat­ic ties will be re­stored or whether stalled en­er­gy dis­cus­sions, in­clud­ing po­ten­tial gas arrange­ments, could re­sume.