Possessions in struggle: for a plausible theory of maritime, sovereignty, in the Caribbean during the sailing era

Abstract

The work deals with the problem of deceptive possessions of the sea compared to traditionally accepted concept of possession of the land, under a new amplifying vision of the possible sovereignty generated there, as changing as the variable maritime possession in which winds and currents allowed or denied repeating tours and cruises. To this end, these pages explain who could posses the sea of the northern mainland, where New Granada and the Venezuelan provinces disputed the Guajira peninsula and later the Gulf of Venezuela, despite the oceanic ruling in favor of the Eastern Land of Grace and the conceptual variability of sovereignty. With this objective, foreign naval intervention is reviewed, together with Dutch penetration, the structural problem of the Spanish metropolis, the relative and inconsistent maritime dominance influenced by smuggling, and the Caribbean confrontation of the European Thalassocratic powers (140 words).