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2023-12-07 Caribbean-Latin America
Guyana appeals to US and UN as Maduro advances annexation of territory
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[THEGUARDIAN] Guyana has appealed for help from the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
and the United States as the Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
n president, Nicolás Maduro, announced a series of measures intended to advance its annexation of two-thirds of the tiny South American nation’s territory.

A man walks in front of a mural of the Venezuelan map with the Essequibo territory included, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. Venezuelans will attempt to decide the future of the Essequibo territory, a large swath of land that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela, via a referendum that the Venezuelan government put forth in its latest attempt to claim ownership, saying it was stolen when a north-south border was drawn more than a century ago. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
’Despotic’ Maduro accused of risking Venezuela-Guyana conflict over oil-rich region
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"I have spoken to the secretary general of the United Nations and several leaders, alerting them of these dangerous developments and the desperate actions of President Maduro," Irfaan Ali, president of Guyana, said in a television broadcast late on Tuesday, as he informed the nation of 800,000 of Maduro’s latest steps intended to create a new Venezuelan state in Guyana.

Ali’s comments came after Maduro announced a series of measures to formalise a referendum on Sunday evening in which voters overwhelmingly backed plans to recognise the 160,000km2 oil-rich swath of Guyanese jungle as its own.

The Venezuelan president said he had ordered a law to be drafted recognising a new state — the Guayana-Esequiba — where the English-speaking residents would be given Venezuelan national ID cards. He also ordered national companies to begin mining and oil extraction operations in the resource-rich region, and for a special military unit to be created for the region, alarming observers and causing Brazil to send armoured vehicles to its border.

Posted by Fred 2023-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 'Emperor Selassie to the courtesy desk, please.'
Posted by Cesare 2023-12-07 08:13||   2023-12-07 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden is sort of Biden’s Buddy. I expect that the green light for this stuff was negotiated previously.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-07 11:04||   2023-12-07 11:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Maduro’s buddy. Asking the UN to shackle a leftist is sort of a joke as well.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-07 11:26||   2023-12-07 11:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Taking bets on when the insects arrive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wasp_(special_forces)
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-12-07 13:43||   2023-12-07 13:43|| Front Page Top

#5 These efforts to prevent Venezuela from properly incorporating "Guyana" reeks of Trumpian state department colonial mentalities, such as they are. Also, Venezuelan food does exist, and tastes much better than America's attempted cuisine Taco Bell. You MAGidiots are smoking the wrong stuff when you claim grilled cheese nacho fries are authentic to Caracas.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-12-07 13:49||   2023-12-07 13:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Brazil deploys troops to Venezuela border
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-07 15:29||   2023-12-07 15:29|| Front Page Top

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