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Venezuela has an eastern coast that, I think, would be suitable for a launch site if you put it south of Trinidad and Tobago. It’s far from population centers,
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Venezuela has an eastern coast that, I think, would be suitable for a launch site if you put it south of Trinidad and Tobago.
It’s far from population centers, though (1), so it would require building/growing a city for personnel to live. It also appears to be swampy (not a show stopper, as Florida shows, but not ideal, either), and it has monsoons, so the weather may be a showstopper.
I also would be worried about political stability of the country.
(1) Apple Maps shows Tucupita as about the only thing near that coast. It’s about 100km away and, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucupita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucupita has a population of less than 100,000.