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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

[ZeroHedge] In a move that has prompted many to wonder which is the bigger banana republic, Venezuela or the US, Joe Biden's new BFF, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro (who has promised to export a few barrels of oil to the US president - now that draining the SPR is no longer an option - to keep gas prices low ahead of the 2024 presidential election in exchange for sanction relaxation and defacto recognition by the White House that Maduro is the dictatorially "democratically" elected president of Venezuela, making a mockery of a decade of Western virtue-signaling sanctions), on Sunday Caracas is set to hold a referendum among Venezuelans on annexing (i.e., invading and taking over) a whopping 160,000 sq km of extremely oil-rich land in neighbouring Guyana.

Why now? Why only now when Caracas has for more than 200 years claimed rights over Essequibo, a vast swath of the territory Guyana? Simple: because as we said several days ago, it was only a few months ago that Maduro realized he has leverage over the US president of the "most powerful nation in the world" and get away with anything... even invading a sovereign nation.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 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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