Posted on 12/25/2018 5:33:00 PM PST by Rusty0604
The Venezuelan Navy illegally entered the waters of Guyana this weekend and forced a ship contracted by Exxon Mobil to conduct oil research in the area to vacate,
The incident, which Guyanese authorities angrily denounced and vowed to bring to the attention of the United Nations, reignites a feud Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro began with the neighboring country in 2015, claiming as much as two-thirds of Guyana itself belonged to Venezuela. Guyana has repeatedly noted that Venezuela signed an agreement in 1899 on the territory in question and no disputes remain as to who owns that land.
Exxon Mobil made its first of ten major oil discoveries in Guyana in 2015, triggering Maduro’s claims to the territory. Despite being an OPEC member nation and home to one of the world’s largest known oil reserves, Venezuela has been forced to import hundreds of thousands of gallons of refined oil because the socialist state nationalized the nation’s major oil corporations and has replaced experts at Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-run oil company, with Maduro cronies of limited experience in the oil industry.
In its own statement released Sunday, the government of Guyana expressed outrage at the Venezuelan government invading its territory and said it would bring a complaint before the United Nations.
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Will be interesting to see if we respond by placing a couple of ships in the area....
More good news for the stock market.
[ the state-run oil company, with Maduro cronies of limited experience ]
Who does Maduro think he is, Barack?
Looks like Maduro wants a war with its neighbor to get the people off their plight that he caused.
It’s the Brits bailiwick. Let them handle it.
Bingo! But what will the soldiers eat or be paid with during this phony war? Maduro is getting desperate and he knows his time is almost over.
Guyana has less a military than VN. Having served there from 2008-2010, I can assure you the leadership in Georgetown is more interested in keeping the India Indian’s as President and the Blacks as mayor of Georgetown than fighting anyone else.
What was Mad Maxine said about “Socializing” the oil industry in this country?
Sickening that this Socialist moron will be chairing such an important committee come January.
Thanks for the info.
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Powerful Venezuela loses a war with weak, bankrupt Guyana.
Maduro will blame the Ghost of Jim Jones.
Then join him.
Hope not. A few weeks ago, Russia planes went on an exercise with Venezuela over the gulf. Iran is send warships over there too.
Sounds like the Falklands all over. The Generals of Argentina paid a price for that.
We should take out the Iranian ship.
“Will be interesting to see if we respond by placing a couple of ships in the area....”
Better still, sink the entire “Venezuelan Navy!” I mean what do they have except probably some old WWII former US Navy vessels.
At any rate, a new avenue for legal claims of "amnesty" for the current crop of illegal "migrants"...
The invaders eat the invaded countries stuff. As for being paid, they have guns to make withdrawals at the local bank there.
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