Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuelan Conflict
Whenever countries share resources there is the potential for conflict to arise between the two nations, which may each feel entitled to a greater share than it is receiving and each of which has different legal systems, cultural value, and sometimes languages. The ability of two countries to negotiate with each other is limited by a number of pragmatic issues as well as by the desire (or lack of desire) of the two sides to find any common ground. This paper examines one such international conflict - the stance between the nations of Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago over fishing rights.
It is important to note at the beginning of this discussion that the mining of natural resources (whether gold or fish) that a dependence on extractive, primary resources tends to keep nations poorer, thus making them more desperate to claim what they can from the resources available to them.
Both Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago are relatively poor countries (or at least countries where the majority of the people are poor) and this tends to exacerbate their disputes over fishing rights. Venezuela, both larger and more economically powerful (a "semi-peripheral" nation), tends to have an advantage over Trinidad and Tobago, a "peripheral" nation, as explained in the model below.
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