As far back as 2023, the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) drew attention to imminent challenges implicating Trinidad and Tobago that were lurking on the horizon because of increasing regional tensions involving the United States, Venezuela and Guyana.

The SSA’s annual report for 2023 warned that these regional tensions between the US, Venezuela and Guyana would inevitably affect and influence the Caricom region’s status as a “Zone of Peace”.

And that it could also impact the Dragon gas field deal with Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, as well as other existing and future Trinidad and Tobago-Venezuela energy agreements.