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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Guyana is a memeber of the Comowealth isn’t it?
Send in Todd Hoffman.
Iran wants to wipe Israel and the United States off the map. I get that. But what I want to know is why are there as many as 5000 Iranian students in our universities studying everything from mass media to nuclear physics, many on scholarships. Why?
USA and UK will stand with Guyana as will Brazil and Columbia —there will be no war. Would Trump like the chance to move on Venezuela? Heck Yeah. The dictator has more to fear of his own soldiers and people.
Fifth Column.
Support Guyana.
” the state-run oil company, with Maduro cronies of limited experience “
I worked in Venezuala in the mid 70s in oil exploration.
All the low skilled jobs on the drilling rigs were done by Venezuelans. The high skilled jobs were probably about 50% American and 50% Venezuelan. It was a very efficient industry back then. Socialism has killed the oil industry in Venezuela. When I worked on a CVP rig (the national oil company) I might be the only American on the rig. I was sent on these jobs by my American Company because I could speak Spanish.
Venezuela was great duty back in the seventies.
“Looks like Maduro wants a war with its neighbor to get the people off their plight that he caused.”
Yep! However, Maduros Army is mostly thugs. There is no loyalty to nation in his army. Alas, Guyana has not really effective Army as they did not need one until now. Guyana was once British territory. One sub, and a few Venezuelan warships sunk in the night would solve the problem. Also alas, the once great nation of Britain is almost a failed state.
The fight is about oil in the territorial waters of Guyana. The real hell of it is that the communism of Chavez and Maduro has wrecked their ability to even exploit their own great oil reserves. I worked their in the mid seventies in oil exploration. It was a thriving and most successful nation then. It was corrupt. It was no less corrupt than our nation today. This should give us pause to thought about our future here.
I believe that is what I wrote. It is an independent country, again, as I noted, since 1966. Per your ‘Monroe Doctrine’, it is the ‘bailiwick’ of the US.
Suriname has even less. Doing business there is like working with a family or small town. They too have oil discoveries by Apache.
Brother, if you can invent a time machine that guarantees us safe passage back to the 1970’s I’m ready to go.
I WILL need to take one sheet of paper or maybe just a note card with me. I’m gonna write down a few things to avoid.
And a few cars to keep.
Commies: “Get out of here, you oil-discoverers!”
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.
Thanks Rusty0604.
Venezuela is a failed state. Its future boundaries will be defined by the nation states surrounding it. Oddly Western Venezuela, where most of the oil is, would be most happy to be part of the stable nation of Columbia. Western Venezuela wants stability and prosperity they once enjoyed in the past.
There will be much bloodshed in the near future in this once great nation which is no longer a nation.
“But what will the soldiers eat or be paid with during this phony war? ”
They will be allowed to pillage, just like armies did for thousands of years.
Oil patch salute! I worked the lovely places..North Africa, Eest Africa and most of the ME during the 70s and eighties.
More US blood and dollars. If the Brits don’t care why and the Hell should we? My point is the Brit s ‘baby’s let them support it.
As long as the Russians and the Chinese stay out the Monroe Doctrine don’t apply.
You have two main kinds of Venezuelans, the former middle class and working class, versus the underclass which voted Maduro into power on promises of his looting the employed for welfare benefits to the underclass.
The productive fled first. Now there’s nothing left to loot to feed the underclass.
Support the US. Build the wall. Mind our own business for once.
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