“Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday ordered the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own.”
“The announcement came a day a day after Maduro got the victory he sought in a weekend referendum on whether to claim sovereignty over the region.”
“Maduro said he would “immediately” proceed “to grant operating licenses for the exploration and exploitation of oil, gas and mines in the entire area of our Essequibo.” He also ordered the creation of local subsidiaries of Venezuelan public companies, including oil giant PDVSA and mining conglomerate Corporación Venezolana de Guayana.”
“Maduro’s announcement comes a day after Venezuela’s electoral authorities announced that the five questions with which the government wanted to claim sovereignty over Essequibo were approved in Sunday’s referendum.”
“Guyana has denounced the referendum as pretext to annex the land. It had appealed to the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ top court, which on Friday ordered Venezuela not to take any action to change the status quo until the panel can rule on the two countries’ competing claims, which could take years.”
I cannot comment as I am in trouble.
Doesn’t Guyana have some cruise ships to stop them?
they cant hardly sell what they are pumping today noone is even paying after recieving the oil!
Venezuela should probably learn to save for a rainy day instead of slapping Band-Aids on every issue that faces their nation. This will likely end in a ton of sanctions that will further fuck their economy.
To me it sounds like someone is pulling puppet strings on Maduro to act as fast as possible. CHAOS is the puppet master’s goal
Another principled anti-imperialist!
The crappiest country in South America doesn’t need a war to add to its problems.
Makes me wonder how much Russia played a rule in this nonsense.
More oil will surely fix the failing economy of a country with massive oil reserves!
Another front to distract from Ukraine
I know this sounds like conspiracy theory but I really think Russia helped to encourage this.
In getting different regions to start conflicts it helps to both take attention away from the war in Ukraine as well as cause instability in different regions.
The possible hope being that it might dilute the amount of military assistance Ukraine receives and reduce media coverage that is putting pressure on Russia.
Remind me, isn’t Venezuela a nation rich in oil already? Maybe if they hadn’t run their own oil industry into the ground they wouldn’t covet their neighbors?
Almost 2 months without another regional conflict, I was getting worried
Funny how the so-called “anti-imperialist” tankies always end up becoming imperialists.
Eastern imperialists are starting wars every corner around the world, their ambition of domination is clear, all of them have the same backing, russia and china.
The more russian/chinese influence there are, the more poverty and instability there are. This is a 90% correct pattern globally.
Advisor: “US sanctions are expiring. The issue is people are going to realize it’s not the sanctions causing our economic problems, but rather our policies…”
Maduro: “What if we earned ourselves more sanctions?”
Didnt Avatar predict a war in Venezuela?
Did somebody say OIL? This sounds like a job for Uncle Sam
The October 7 attack by Hamas and now the sudden saber rattling by Venezuela all have one thing in common: Russian fingerprints.
Russia desperately wants to divert the attention and resources of the US and Western Europe from Ukraine. Every bullet fired and dollar spent dealing with Hamas or Venezuelan misadventures is a bullet or dollar denied to Ukraine aid packages.
Will Venezuela invade Guyana? No, but they will start asymmetrical “problems” in the region. The US will protect our ally and US interests and actively enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
There will be US soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen in Guyana and they will probably kill scores of Venezuelan banditos. This will be like the Malay Emergency or various early 20th century Central American/Caribbean policing actions. Low intensity conflict against irregular forces by US and local forces.
And Russia will laugh and cheerfully stir the pot and create more chaos.
To be entirely honest even the overly corrupt forces of the venezuelan regime could take over Guyana within a couple of weeks and removing them would be a bitch and a half.
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But if London or Washington intervene it won’t be in Guyana, but in Caracas.
So… they are fucked.
Is he a dwarf?
I can’t imagine invading an oil rich nation in the americas is a good plan for securing the future of Venezuelans
What grade is their crude ?
Lol war is a hobby of the world leaders
The least imperial socialist
Yet Venezuela itself sits on some of the world’s largest oil reserves, and they’re incredibly inept at deriving any wealth from them.
This is not about the oil, literally the one thing that Venezuela has plenty of.
Ah yes, time to test the Monroe Doctrine. I wonder how this will work out for the Maduro regime……
Man I can’t wait for Brazil and the USN to clown on him
have been reading a little bit about this.
It seems like in the past the USA was actually on venezuala’s side? And that Russia was the deciding vote *against* venezuala.
Now the relationships are the complete opposite.
Says the country where the only attack aircraft is 9 mi-35….
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“Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday ordered the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own.”
“The announcement came a day a day after Maduro got the victory he sought in a weekend referendum on whether to claim sovereignty over the region.”
“Maduro said he would “immediately” proceed “to grant operating licenses for the exploration and exploitation of oil, gas and mines in the entire area of our Essequibo.” He also ordered the creation of local subsidiaries of Venezuelan public companies, including oil giant PDVSA and mining conglomerate Corporación Venezolana de Guayana.”
“Maduro’s announcement comes a day after Venezuela’s electoral authorities announced that the five questions with which the government wanted to claim sovereignty over Essequibo were approved in Sunday’s referendum.”
“Guyana has denounced the referendum as pretext to annex the land. It had appealed to the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ top court, which on Friday ordered Venezuela not to take any action to change the status quo until the panel can rule on the two countries’ competing claims, which could take years.”
I cannot comment as I am in trouble.
Doesn’t Guyana have some cruise ships to stop them?
they cant hardly sell what they are pumping today noone is even paying after recieving the oil!
Venezuela should probably learn to save for a rainy day instead of slapping Band-Aids on every issue that faces their nation. This will likely end in a ton of sanctions that will further fuck their economy.
To me it sounds like someone is pulling puppet strings on Maduro to act as fast as possible. CHAOS is the puppet master’s goal
Another principled anti-imperialist!
The crappiest country in South America doesn’t need a war to add to its problems.
Makes me wonder how much Russia played a rule in this nonsense.
More oil will surely fix the failing economy of a country with massive oil reserves!
Another front to distract from Ukraine
I know this sounds like conspiracy theory but I really think Russia helped to encourage this.
In getting different regions to start conflicts it helps to both take attention away from the war in Ukraine as well as cause instability in different regions.
The possible hope being that it might dilute the amount of military assistance Ukraine receives and reduce media coverage that is putting pressure on Russia.
Remind me, isn’t Venezuela a nation rich in oil already? Maybe if they hadn’t run their own oil industry into the ground they wouldn’t covet their neighbors?
Almost 2 months without another regional conflict, I was getting worried
Funny how the so-called “anti-imperialist” tankies always end up becoming imperialists.
Eastern imperialists are starting wars every corner around the world, their ambition of domination is clear, all of them have the same backing, russia and china.
The more russian/chinese influence there are, the more poverty and instability there are. This is a 90% correct pattern globally.
Advisor: “US sanctions are expiring. The issue is people are going to realize it’s not the sanctions causing our economic problems, but rather our policies…”
Maduro: “What if we earned ourselves more sanctions?”
Didnt Avatar predict a war in Venezuela?
Did somebody say OIL? This sounds like a job for Uncle Sam
The October 7 attack by Hamas and now the sudden saber rattling by Venezuela all have one thing in common: Russian fingerprints.
Russia desperately wants to divert the attention and resources of the US and Western Europe from Ukraine. Every bullet fired and dollar spent dealing with Hamas or Venezuelan misadventures is a bullet or dollar denied to Ukraine aid packages.
Will Venezuela invade Guyana? No, but they will start asymmetrical “problems” in the region. The US will protect our ally and US interests and actively enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
There will be US soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen in Guyana and they will probably kill scores of Venezuelan banditos. This will be like the Malay Emergency or various early 20th century Central American/Caribbean policing actions. Low intensity conflict against irregular forces by US and local forces.
And Russia will laugh and cheerfully stir the pot and create more chaos.
To be entirely honest even the overly corrupt forces of the venezuelan regime could take over Guyana within a couple of weeks and removing them would be a bitch and a half.
​
But if London or Washington intervene it won’t be in Guyana, but in Caracas.
So… they are fucked.
Is he a dwarf?
I can’t imagine invading an oil rich nation in the americas is a good plan for securing the future of Venezuelans
What grade is their crude ?
Lol war is a hobby of the world leaders
The least imperial socialist
Yet Venezuela itself sits on some of the world’s largest oil reserves, and they’re incredibly inept at deriving any wealth from them.
This is not about the oil, literally the one thing that Venezuela has plenty of.
Ah yes, time to test the Monroe Doctrine. I wonder how this will work out for the Maduro regime……
Man I can’t wait for Brazil and the USN to clown on him
have been reading a little bit about this.
It seems like in the past the USA was actually on venezuala’s side? And that Russia was the deciding vote *against* venezuala.
Now the relationships are the complete opposite.
Says the country where the only attack aircraft is 9 mi-35….
Let’s see what Brazil do here