Our geographic location makes us well situated to be a transition point from Venezuela. So that shit you sniffed on your birthday Nate, yep, that passed through my hood.
I'm only about 3 chapters in. Now I won't say what the author's written is fact; everybody has an agenda. He says that the US Gov't doesn't bother T&T too much for its role in the transport of drugs to the states, as opposed to countries like Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti and other Caribbean countries as long as we continue to be a secure source of energy (LNG) gas to the US.