Negotiating Dragon gas with PDVSA

One of few proposals left for peace remains Prime Minister Kamla Persad's eagerness to resume Dragón gas field negotiations with Venezuela. I wrote a letter to Pdvsa and went into Caracas PDVSA headquarters, directed to President Héctor Obregón Pérez, to request consideration for such a proposal: which would be beneficial not only for Trinidad & Tobago, but for further expansion into Guyana, Suriname, Grenada, Jamaica and Cuba. Unfortunately, response I received from Pdvsa was negative: as at this time they do not consider this project as suitable. Pete Hegseth announced this morning, while I was visiting Pdvsa, that another speedboat was shot on Venezuelan waters. There was another highly provocative event of five aircraft which violated Venezuelan airspace. Incident was appropriately condemned by Venezuelan Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Relations, as a violation of Venezuelan sovereignty and violation of international law.

Persons in favor of invasion against Venezuela are hoping that Venezuelan military will become overwhelmed and respond with fire. This hasn't happened yet, as we are still seeking peace. This impasse between Venezuela and United States must be solved through diplomatic means. One of such diplomatic means is Marco Rubio's assurance that an OFAC license can be provided to Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela for exploration of Dragón Gas Field. Public opinion in Trinidad & Tobago seems partisan: where supporters of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar would like Dragón Gas deal to go through, while opposition of Trinidad & Tobago would not like Dragón gas deal to go through.

Similar toxic division exists in Venezuela, where supporters of Nicolás Maduro would like exploitation of oil and gas reserves under leadership of Maduro's government, while persons favoring invasion would prefer invasion to go through, so that our petroleum company is transferred to different hands. A new petroleum business would likely entail privatization of national oil company with full support of United States. It is my understanding that Kamla Persad's proposal assumes that current Venezuelan government will stay, as she has publicly declared that it is not in her interest to promote regime change in Venezuela. Certainly both sides have been retrenching, in regards of convenience or inconvenience of invasion against Venezuela. It looks like Pdvsa authorities would prefer to remain prudent until geopolitical threats fade away.

After rejection of my letter on dialogue between Pdvsa and Trinidad & Tobago government, for expanding Dragón gas field, I decided to head into Embassy of Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in Caracas. Security guard told me that offices were closed on Friday afternoons, so he invited me to return on Monday morning. I had previously written an electronic mail letter to Embassy of Trinidad & Tobago earlier this week, which hadn't been responded either. It looks like both sides have a common interest. There is no political will to end this war threat, for dismay of populations and economies of Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago which have traditionally behaved as good neighbors.

President Nicolás Maduro and Vice President Delcy Rodríguez on multiple occasions have stressed out that problems must be solved by dialogue. Therefore, I would urge authorities of my home country, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to reconsider their negative to speak to government led by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. I am just a private citizen of Caracas. I might be able to offer to Trinidad & Tobago embassy, when I go visit them next week, to foster an intermediate cultural activity through my school of cinema and television Escinetv, similar to activities we have already deployed with embassy of France, while resuming conversations on Dragón gas deal after successful completion of such proposed cultural activity.

Richard Grenell, special envoy of United States to Venezuela, recently stated that building trust takes time, when both parties are deeply hurt. Presence of Richard Grenell in negotiations for peace in Caribbean, along with Kamla Persad-Bissessar's proposal to resume Dragón gas field, with Marco Rubio support for an OFAC license, remain the only verifiable hints from United States that war could theoretically be averted. Probability of war continues increasing while probability of peace continues decreasing. Social media are definitely to blame. If world escapes from this madness of simultaneous wars breaking out throughout the planet, if humanity averts war and resumes a path of international understanding and development through usage of tools provided by United Nations charter, much attention will need to be devoted to social media.

I have been active in commenting events related to Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela during recent days. I notice there is a requirement from other Caribbean countries to have Trinidad & Tobago behaving exactly as they do, by assumption that people of Venezuela would not like a Dragón gas deal. It is unacceptable that people from countries that are not directly affected by sanctions, and by lack of economic opportunities as Venezuelans are enduring, are now asking Venezuelans to surrender our desire to develop our petroleum and gas resources. Venezuela has not proposed an alternative plan to develop Dragón gas field. Infrastructure to link any possible gas extraction from Dragón into any remote destination will be prohibitively expensive. Most cost effective operation of Dragón gas field explorations goes through nearby Trinidad & Tobago: which boasts adequate processing liquefied natural gas infrastructure.

My reply to people who are asking who will Kamla, personally or through her team, visit when they come to Venezuela: is that I am personally a private citizen who would be honored in meeting them and talking to them if they come to visit. I have studied geopolitical implications of oil and gas projects throughout this entire year 2025 since I started becoming interested in the topic, due to the Chevron license issues. In many public opinion issues, I have sided with the opposition. In some public opinion issues, I have sided with government: because I am a freethinker and I resent having to constantly agree to any political parties' will. At this time, I pledge my support to Venezuelan government in preserving peace, and in sovereignly operating our petroleum and gas facilities. Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro and Constitutional Vice President Delcy Rodríguez on many occasions have asked for foreign investment into Venezuelan oil fields, as long as they abide by Venezuelan conditions.

To credit of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her team, they should be given an opportunity to make their case to President Nicolás Maduro, to foreign minister Yvan Gil, to Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, and to Pdvsa President Héctor Obregón Pérez. Legacy statements from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar tended to be controversial about initial stages of so called war on cartels, as she sided with United States position. However, we notice a shift in her stance: as she is already conceding that she is not in business of seeking regime change. She has also stressed out that she would not make available use of Trinidad & Tobago territory for an invasion into Venezuela. Her reference for military positioning of United States military assets would only be in case that Venezuela enters Essequibo territory administered by Guyana. Likelihood for a solution would increase if Venezuela restores its relationship with Trinidad & Tobago.

Caricom, which is an organism uniting all Caribbean countries, is deeply divided: Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica belong on one side, while the rest of the islands remain on opposite side. Caribbean needs to speak with only one voice. If Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela are able to dialogue and discuss terms of Dragón gas exploration, bilateral tensions would be transformed into a bilateral victory, that would be positive for rest of Caribbean Sea. At beginning of this conflict, many observers from Caribbean were demanding that peace should prevail. Now that we have an opportunity for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's government and President Maduro's government, to dialogue and agree on mutually beneficial conditions for gas extraction, it looks like public opinion of many Caribbean countries is biased towards resentment and escalation, towards communicational warfare rather than peaceful and economic goals shared by populations of sister republics of Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela.

We will continue monitoring how relentless provocations initiated by United States would fail to cause a situation where Venezuela would shoot first. Venezuelans in exile, who are mostly in favor of invasion against our country, are joking that Venezuelan government and military are weak: because they are not responding with fire to United States provocations. Unfortunately, we must endure these jokes as we continue seeking peace. Certainly my particular case, where I am again offering to peoples and governments of Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela to do as much as I can to bring understanding between our nations, I will certainly not follow any path of provocation, while I reassert that sovereignty of Venezuela should not be intruded.

I would like to thank fifty-three countries that recently held bilateral meetings with Venezuelan foreign minister Yvan Gil, supporting Venezuela's push for sovereignty and end of colonialism. Foreign Minister Gil hosted in Caracas a seminar on colonial enclaves that still exist in this continent: including islands of Anguila, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, Guadeloupe, Martinique, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Saba, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Saint Marteen, Greenland, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, French Guiana, Falklands. All these territories are joined by Puerto Rico, they should all become independent countries. Fulfilling this goal will become a central strategy of Venezuelan foreign policy moving onwards, so that such independence becomes possible.

We have learned that independence requires economic development for a population. In case of Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela, we deserve to continue improving our gas extraction and processing industries. Together we should become stronger. Same goes for Guyana, which still needs alternative investment for their Stabroek fields and building of a refinery in Essequibo. Perhaps repetition of these goals must continue, until it becomes mainstream in general public. This is challenging as communications tend to be prioritized by algorithms in social media, tilting toward promotion of war contents. Conflicts provide increased likes and views. Hateful reactions become viral. This causes our world today to degrade as less secure, more war prone than during previous historical times, when social media algorithms promoting war had not been invented yet.