The archipelago's foreign ministry said in a statement that joint training drills will run from Sunday to November 21.

Last month, a US guided-missile destroyer docked at Trinidad for four days for another round of exercises -- within firing range of Venezuela, which called it a "provocation".

On Friday, the Trinidadian foreign ministry said the new round of exercises "forms part of our longstanding history of collaboration" with the US military.

Venezuela claims US military activity in Latin America is really part of a plot to overthrow its leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who Washington considers an illegitimate leader and a drug lord.

As part of a deployment of warships, fighter jets and thousands of soldiers, US forces have launched strikes against 21 alleged drug-smuggling boats since September, killing at least 80 people.

Washington has provided no evidence the targets were traffickers, and rights groups say the strikes are illegal regardless.