Die venezolanischen Wahlbehörden behaupteten am Sonntag, dass 95 Prozent der Wähler in einem unverbindlichen Referendum dem Territorialanspruch des Landes auf einen großen Teil des benachbarten, ölreichen Guyana zugestimmt hätten.

by Endyf

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  1. I used the sub-heading rather than the headline itself, as I think “claim” is an important word to emphasise when discussing public votes in a non-democratic country.

  3. Venezuela claims everything west of the Essequibo river, which is more than half of Guyana.

    To put on perspective, it’s like a country claiming everything west of the Mississippi River.

  5. Putin’s cabal of friends around the globe are making moves hoping to tie up U.S. resources.

  6. Highly doubt that’s accurate but I guess they’re going to war with Guyana and Brazil

  8. They also claimed 10million votes when we saw photos of empty polls all day.

  9. Just going to leave this here:
    https://twitter.com/TonyFrangieM/status/1731518621296267567

    American pundits interpreting the Esequibo referendum like a 2014 Ukraine or 1991 Kuwait situation are completely missing its true domestic purpose and the centuries-old history and background of the dispute 👇🏻

    https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2023/11/30/what-is-venezuela-actually-seeking-with-the-esequibo-referendum/

    Most of the people who actually know how Venezuela operates ive been following on twitter really doubt Maduro will actually do anything, especially since there has been no movement from the Venezuela government indicating it will happen, unlike with Russia. Most of them believe this mainly posturing by Maduro, as a way to potentially suspend the 2024 elections.

    In order to following reliable updates on this situation, follow this newly created OSINT account, created by professionals who know what this is all about: https://twitter.com/monitoresequibo.

  10. There probably are Russian hands all over this, to try and muddy the water and divert attention. Why now? There’s no major projects coming online, Venezuela isn’t running out of oil, and it’s shitty, inefficient, corrupt national oil producer likely doesn’t have the capacity to tap into this anytime soon. So – Why now? Distraction. It’s working in Israel, why not cash in your Venezuelan chips at the same time.

    Maduro has to know that he will get his shit pushed in if they start a unilateral resource war against Brazil. It will be the end of that shitty regime as well.

    If you’ve got 3 wars on 3 continents, you got yourself a World War. Venezuela has to see that Russia isn’t going to be able to help them achieve anything worthwhile.

    …..right?

  11. Venezuelans vote to annex the entire planet with 100 trillion brazillion votes

    Checkmate.

    *Dances salsa*

  13. Fun “fact” – Jake Sully in Avatar was wounded and put into his wheelchair during his service as a Marine in combat in Venezuela.

    Just sayin’.

  16. If only they had just asked the people who lived there instead

  17. Fake vote. Fake turnout.

    And the 5 questions were ridiculous.

  20. An attempt to get the West to send resources away from Ukraine

    This smells like Putin

  22. Guyanese here living in the US. Our country is poor as fuck and we discovered oil. All of a sudden Venezuela is claiming the land. Like they don’t already have enough oil.

    For those unfamiliar with the oil situation. Since rhe oil discovery Guyana employed ExxonMobil. If I recall correctly America is getting 98% of the profits. Guyanas previous government decided on the terms of the contract.

    US either let’s Venezuela take the land and oil and miss out on what would be $4.5TN yearly.

    Guyana doesn’t have the infrastructure to do this project on their own but I’m happy they ultimately contracted the US. It’s a peaceful country. It’s supposed to be the world’s fastest growing economic country at #1 due to the discovery. Since I visited there last year (haven’t been back since I was born so roughly 30 gears) the country has developed a lot.

    Hoping there’s a resolution but Venezuelans have been illegally entering Guyana running away from their government.

  23. It isn’t actually that unlikely for referendums to have huge majorities like this if the turnout is low, which it seems to be. There are probably around 20-23 million people who can vote, about 10 million who reportedly did. That number could be suspicious too but assuming it is accurate that would peo about half of the voters voting in favour, much more plausible for a controversial idea.

    Some constitutions get high turnout and high margins if they are voted on as a package deal and not individual questions, in case you get into the weeds yourself.

  24. War in Middle East, war in Europe, war in South America.

    What do we call that again?

  30. One special military operation, coming right up!

  31. Time to get the popcorn 🍿. For some reason Maduro reminds me of Saddam. Let’s see how this works out for him.

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