Venezuela sounds alarm over Trinidad oil spill threat to fishing, environment

Venezuela's foreign ministry asked Trinidad and Tobago to take measures to, “prevent further incidents,” adding that it, "reserves the right to take appropriate action before the competent international bodies to determine liability."

Both countries have had a tense relationship over the last 14 months after Trinidad's new government said it supported US actions that led to the arrest of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

(Reporting by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez and Curtis Williams; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Mark Porter)