Regarded by both Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela as an important lifeline in circumstances where both countries are experiencing economic pressures, the Dragon Gas Field Project, under which the two countries stand to benefit from the recovery of the gas field situated in Venezuelan territory, the likelihood, or otherwise, of the project moving ahead may become an issue again with the return of Donald Trump to a second tilt at the United States presidency following his victory at the polls earlier this month.
With relations between Washington and Caracas having ‘cooled’ somewhat under the presidency of Joe Biden, the return of Trump to the White House, many analysts believe, may rekindle what had been the mutually hostile posture of the two capitals to each other under the earlier Trump administration.