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2023-12-03 Caribbean-Latin America

Latin America On Edge As Venezuela's Maduro Holds Referendum Whether To Invade Oil-Rich Neighbor Guyana

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Instead of allowing Americans to drill baby drill, getting oil, to save your political ass, from Nicolas Maduro appears to have a down side. Now he thinks you work for him.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-03 07:38|| 2023-12-03 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 The territory disputed by Venezuela comprises more than half of Guyana.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-12-03 08:23|| 2023-12-03 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Brazil seems to have an opinion on this

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-03 08:53|| 2023-12-03 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 I take it this is the same area over which Grover Cleveland and Monroe Doctrine "neocons" of the time tried to get the US into a war with Great Britain.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-12-03 09:11|| 2023-12-03 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Biden administration plans to buy 2.7M oil barrels to refill emergency stockpile

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-03 11:57|| 2023-12-03 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Somehow, you would think we should speak up about stability in our own hemisphere. A Goggle search of the topic produced no comments of positions from the State Department or the White House in the first few pages. Quelle suprize!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-12-03 14:08|| 2023-12-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Opinions are for those who can afford them. Currently, having killed of our domestic production AND the SPR, we are beholden to the Ven dictator and his sh!tty oil. The only opinion Sponge Brains has is preference of tapioca to kiddy hair.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-12-03 14:19|| 2023-12-03 14:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Do we have any irrelevant Abrams tanks to send Guyana or can we cover their government payroll for a decade or so?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-03 14:20|| 2023-12-03 14:20|| Front Page Top

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