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Old December 7th, 2020 #601
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Maduro’s socialist alliance victory in Venezuela’s National Assembly poll is a failure of US sanctions & regime change policy


7 Dec, 2020 16:32

Daniel Kovalik teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and is author of the recently-released No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using “Humanitarian” Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests.

The victory of Maduro’s political alliance in Sunday’s parliamentary election means that despite the Covid pandemic, economic hardships and sanctions by the US, Venezuelans voted for the continuation of the Chavista Revolution.

A little over a year ago, we were told by the US government and the always-compliant OAS (Organization of American States) that Evo Morales’ re-election in Bolivia was the product of election fraud. No proof was ever given, and eventually, even the New York Times, which had initially been happy to spread the fraud claims, was forced to admit that there appeared to be no evidence that the election was somehow improper.

But the damage was done. Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous President, was forced to resign and flee the country. To the applause of the US, the OAS and some rights groups like Human Rights Watch, the military then installed a right-wing government which wasted no time in violently attacking the largely indigenous population of Bolivia. That coup government was just roundly defeated in elections held in Bolivia in October, demonstrating what the will of the people in Bolivia really was.

Now, we see a repeat of US and OAS manipulations in regard to the December 6 legislative elections in Venezuela. And while they at least waited a day to declare the re-election of Evo Morales to be fraudulent, they declared the Venezuelan elections unfair and unfree before they even took place. Of course, declaring an election invalid before it even happens is itself a form of election interference, and it was intended to be so. The US and OAS wanted the Venezuelan people to lose faith in their own election processes, just as the promoters of the Russiagate canard in the US claimed that Russia attempted to do in 2016.

The US has also directly interfered in the elections by sanctioning opposition leaders simply because they registered to participate in these elections. And, of course, the US has been interfering in Venezuela’s democratic processes for years by sanctioning it with the express intention of producing regime change. These sanctions have been directed against the most vulnerable in Venezuela, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Venezuelans due to the shortage of life-saving medicines and food which the sanctions have caused. The message the US has given to the Venezuelan people is clear – and it is exactly the message it gave to Chileans in 1973 and the Nicaraguans in the 1980s – vote our way, or you will starve.

Meanwhile, it appears that the Venezuelan people were not persuaded or cowed by the assaults against their country and its democratic system – once called “the best in the world” by former US President Jimmy Carter. Thus, more than 14 thousand candidates registered to run for 277 contested National Assembly seats. And voters went to the polls to choose from 107 political parties – “98 from the opposition and 9 from Chavismo.” The US-backed opposition boycotted the vote.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/508919-madu...ory-venezuela/
 
Old December 12th, 2020 #602
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For a long time now, international jewry and its eternal golem, the United States, have been agitating against Venezuela because it opposes "American" (read: jewish) imperialism, jewish globalism, and the racist, genocidal bandit state of Pissrael.

In 2012, the jews were hoping that their fellow tribesman Henrique Capriles Radonski, a "Venezuelan" politician who comes from a family of Polish and Russian jews (Shlomocaust survivors, of course), would manage to destroy Venezuela from within by getting elected as president of the country, but that didn't work out very well for him: the Venezuelan people realized that Radonski was a globalist, New World Order jew puppet, so he lost to Hugo Chávez. A year later, following Chávez's death, a new election was held, and Radonski once again lost, this time to Nicolás Maduro.
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The despicable jew Henrique Capriles Radonski is trying to worm his way into power:

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‘The opposition does not have a leader’: Ditch ‘exhausted’ Guaido charade, Venezuelan opposition figure pleads with US


10 Dec, 2020 18:41



Venezuelan opposition politician Henrique Capriles has urged the incoming Biden administration to halt US efforts to install self-styled interim president Juan Guaido as the rightful occupant of President Nicolas Maduro’s office.

The projected US presidential election winner Joe Biden’s administration “must understand” that the efforts to prop up Guaido despite declining support even among the Venezuelan opposition are “exhausted,” and that it “cannot give continuity to the status quo,” Capriles told the BBC during a Wednesday interview.

He called for Washington and the EU to help the opposition in Caracas “fight for fair electoral conditions” after this month’s vote handed Maduro’s ruling PSUV party control of even the National Assembly, formerly an opposition stronghold. As in 2018, most of the opposition boycotted the vote, leaving a wide-open path to victory for Maduro.

Capriles questioned the wisdom of Guaido’s post-election plan, which would see the “interim president” and his backers in the Assembly continue clinging to their titles even after their five-year terms conclude next month. Such a “complicated precedent” of disregarding electoral results would “open the door to Maduro saying that he will extend his government without holding an election,” Capriles pointed out – apparently overlooking that disregarding election results was precisely how Guaido declared himself “interim president.”
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Capriles lost patience with Guaido’s failure to take power months ago, vowing in September to offer Venezuelans dissatisfied with Maduro’s government the option to vote rather than boycott another vote. He urged the opposition to stop “playing at government on the internet” and vowed to fight for fair elections rather than boycott them entirely – a plan which never materialized. Nevertheless, he strongly hinted during the BBC interview that he was the man to run the opposition, insisting that while he’d never been poor, he “understood” poverty.
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Nevertheless, he strongly hinted during the BBC interview that he was the man to run the opposition, insisting that while he’d never been poor, he “understood” poverty.
Spoken like a true jew.
 
Old December 29th, 2020 #604
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Nicolas Maduro claims Colombia planning new mercenary attacks on Venezuela ‘at the end of this year’ or first days of 2021


29 Dec, 2020 14:28

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that forces inside Colombia, backed by the President Ivan Duque, are plotting to attack the Venezuelan military in the next couple of days.

“Colombia is preparing new attacks against the country's military, with trained mercenaries, with funding from [president] Ivan Duque, preparing attacks at the end of this year or the first days of 2021,” Maduro said in a Monday speech while praising the national armed forces.

The president was referencing a May incident, which greatly heightened tensions between Caracas and Bogota. Then, the Venezuelan military engaged a squad of armed individuals who were trying to infiltrate the country, killing several of them and capturing over a dozen, including two former US Green Berets.
https://www.rt.com/news/511022-madur...lombia-attack/
 
Old January 7th, 2021 #605
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7 Jan, 2021 13:30



A long list of world presidents and prime ministers condemning the invasion of pro-Trump protesters into the US Capitol building compiled by Twitter for some reason includes Venezuela’s Juan Guaido.

Guaido’s bid for presidency in Venezuela was launched two years ago with patronage from the Trump administration. The rationale was that he got elected president of the Venezuelan National Assembly and was supposed to take the reins after the “illegitimate” reelection of President Nicolas Maduro. However, in two years he has failed to take power in Caracas, so calling him a ‘world leader’ seems a bit of a stretch.

The EU notably distanced itself from Guaido this week, calling him merely one of the representatives comprising the “outgoing National Assembly elected in 2015,” rather than acting president. The Biden transition team reportedly refused to answer his phone calls.
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He is also no stranger to invading legislatures. Almost exactly a year ago, he dramatically tried to climb over a fence surrounding the Venezuelan parliament on the day MPs elected politician Luis Parra to replace Guaido as its head. Critics say it was merely a PR stunt, considering that footage shot earlier in the day showed Guaido freely entering the building.
https://www.rt.com/news/511784-guaid...world-leaders/
 
Old January 25th, 2021 #606
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EU drops backing for Guaido as Venezuela interim president, Biden renews US support


25 Jan, 2021 14:29

The EU’s 27 states have said they no longer recognize Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela, despite a call by the European Parliament just days ago for the bloc’s governments not to downgrade his status.

After meeting in Brussels on Monday, the European Council said in a statement it “deeply regretted” that Venezuela’s legislative elections on December 6, 2020 – where Guaido was ousted as head of parliament – were not held democratically.

While not recognizing Guaido as the legitimate head of state, the Council condemned the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro, claiming he had not helped to end Venezuela’s “profound political crisis” after his disputed re-election in 2018.

The council also called for the release of political prisoners and the safety of Maduro’s political opponents, including Guaido, who it described as a “privileged interlocutor,” while calling for the opposition to unite against the president.

Last week, US President Joe Biden’s administration affirmed its support for Guaido, with the new secretary of state, Antony Blinken, promising new “more effective” sanctions in a bid to remove Maduro from power.
https://www.rt.com/news/513554-eu-gu...nezuela-biden/

And yes, the US secretary of state, Antony (sic) Blinken, is a jew:

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Old January 25th, 2021 #607
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Remember, lurkers: we told you two years ago that the greedy, opportunistic jew-puppet Guaidó wasn't Venezuela's legitimate president. As usual, if you want the truth, you come to VNN.
 
Old January 25th, 2021 #608
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Good news is, China supports Maduro and Venezuela.

China Takes on U.S. Over Venezuela After Russia Sends Troops: It's Not Your 'Backyard'

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China has defended Russia's recent deployment of troops to Venezuela amid U.S. statements suggesting Moscow and Beijing had no right to support a Latin American government disavowed by Washington.

The U.S. has attempted to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by supporting opposition-controlled National Assembly head Juan Guaidó, who declared himself acting president earlier this year in a political challenge to the country's socialist leader. While Washington has secured support from a number of allies, Beijing and Moscow were among those backing Maduro. Over the weekend, Russian troops were seen disembarking military aircraft at Caracas's international airport to attend what a diplomatic source as described as "bilateral consultations" to Russia's state-run Sputnik News.

China vows to help crisis-hit Venezuela

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China is Venezuela's main creditor and is "willing to provide whatever help it can offer," Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reportedly promised.

Xi and Maduro signed deals on Friday worth 'billions of dollars,' according to Venezuela's socialist leader.

Maduro is also hoping for a new loan worth $5 billion (€4.28 billion) as well as a six-month extension to the grace period on existing debt.

Beijing has already loaned $50 billion to Caracas over the last decade, which the South American nation has been repaying in oil shipments. Some $20 billion is still owed to Beijing.

Maduro referred to China as Venezuela's "big sister."
Without help from countries like China, would Maduro have been able to hold out for as long as he has, and resist US regime change? The fact that he has been able to hold out is because of help from countries like Russia and China.
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Old January 26th, 2021 #609
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Good news is, China supports Maduro and Venezuela.
I realize that your love for the mass-murdering Chinese regime is very strong, and that you're looking for ways to shoehorn your "Go China! You're the best!" cheerleading into every possible thread (which is why you dug up these articles from 2018 and 2019), but the truth is that the Chinese scum aren't interesting in helping Venezuela; they're simply looking for weak and desperate countries to exploit and bleed dry. We've had this discussion here:

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=145
 
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I realize that your love for the mass-murdering Chinese regime is very strong, and that you're looking for ways to shoehorn your "Go China! You're the best!" cheerleading into every possible thread (which is why you dug up these articles from 2018 and 2019), but the truth is that the Chinese scum aren't interesting in helping Venezuela; they're simply looking for weak and desperate countries to exploit and bleed dry. We've had this discussion here:

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=145
What I posted was relevant to the topic. I get that you don't like it, but the fact is China is one of the few countries backing Venezuela and Maduro alongside the Russians. China is one of the reasons why the US puppet Juan Guaido isn't the leader of Venezuela right now. But China should fuck off, and let the USA put puppets wherever they want, right?
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What I posted was relevant to the topic. I get that you don't like it, but the fact is China is one of the few countries backing Venezuela and Maduro alongside the Russians. China is one of the reasons why the US puppet Juan Guaido isn't the leader of Venezuela right now.
Are you accusing china of influencing the erection results??

 
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What I posted was relevant to the topic. I get that you don't like it, but the fact is China is one of the few countries backing Venezuela and Maduro alongside the Russians.
China has been giving mixed signals. For example, look at the following article:

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China CNPC suspends Venezuelan oil loading, worried about U.S. sanctions: sources


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SINGAPORE/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - China National Petroleum Corp, a leading buyer of Venezuelan oil, has halted August loadings following the latest U.S. sanctions on the South American exporter, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday.

The Trump administration in early August froze all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and U.S. officials ratcheted up threats against companies that do business with Venezuela’s state-run oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., or PDVSA.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKCN1V909C

I've never trusted the greedy, opportunistic, ruthless, mass-murdering Chinese regime.

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But China should fuck off, and let the USA put puppets wherever they want, right?
Having to choose between the US and China is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
 
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Are you accusing china of influencing the erection results??

Lol, according to the USA they are:

US Moves Against China and Supporters of the Illegitimate Maduro Regime’s Fraudulent Elections

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The US took actions on Friday against Venezuela and China for their actions which undermine free and fair elections and undermine the America’s national security.
In a press statement from the State Department action was taken against those who helped the Maduro regime steal the recent December election in Venezuela.
Take it for what it's worth, which isn't a whole lot.

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Having to choose between the US and China is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Ok, but it was the USA who backed Venezuela into a corner to begin with.
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China has been giving mixed signals. For example, look at the following article:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKCN1V909C

I've never trusted the greedy, opportunistic, ruthless, mass-murdering Chinese regime.
Old article, here's what really happened:

Doctored and Rebranded Oil Blacklisted by U.S. Winds Up in China

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It may be the oil market’s worst-kept secret: Millions of barrels of Venezuelan heavy crude, embargoed by the U.S., have been surreptitiously going to China.

The cat-and-mouse games that avoid detection and sanctions include ship-to-ship transfers, shell companies and silenced satellite signals. But there’s another aspect to the dodge. It involves “doping” the oil with chemical additives and changing its name in the paperwork so it can be sold as a wholly different crude without a trace of its Venezuelan roots.
So, the Chinese pretended to stop, in order to avoid US sanctions.
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Yes, I suspected that something like that might happen, but the problem remains: the Chinese are taking advantage of a weak and desperate country in order to bleed it dry. But I understand that the Venezuelans feel that they don't have much of a choice.
 
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Yes, I suspected that something like that might happen, but the problem remains: the Chinese are taking advantage of a weak and desperate country in order to bleed it dry. But I understand that the Venezuelans feel that they don't have much of a choice.
They gave Maduro much needed loans to keep his country afloat under US embargo, and Venezuela has been getting oil revenue from China, revenue they'd have gotten selling oil without a US embargo. You need revenue to keep a government running, otherwise it collapses, or US regime change.

Regardless of how evil anyone thinks China is in this equation, they're the lesser of evils here. Venezuela isn't that big in debt to the Chinese, considering how much oil resources they got, it's not a big deal, and the most pressing issue is US aggression and embargo.
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Great thread, so much information to digest. It's better than reading a watered down book on the subject. I really wish this stuff was all in hard copy in every library.

Some of the topics I think of when we discuss Venezuela.

I saw VIDEO of the US launching CHAMP EMP devices that destroyed their hydroelectric damn electrical systems. That is what has been causing their economic devastation, the loss of their hydrodamn that supplied 99% of their electricity, and also the power to the oil refineries.


Secondly, those Silvercorp USA mercenaries that the Venezuelan army caught and arrested, and were sentenced to 20 years in prison, the day after that , that fucking scumbag Trump and the 'department of justice' had the US navy steal 4 Iranian tankers full of gas headed to help Venezuela. The entire United States is nothing but one massive organized crime operation, and Trump is absolutely nothing but a gangster criminal. Also, the US would steal ships with 25,000 tons of protein on them to help Venezuela, effectively helping to mass murder them/starve them, millions and millions of Venezuela refugees have had to move out of their country to find jobs, to survive.

And on and on and on, every American that obeys any laws of this psycho government is a collaborator and is giving it authority.
 
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They gave Maduro much needed loans to keep his country afloat under US embargo, and Venezuela has been getting oil revenue from China, revenue they'd have gotten selling oil without a US embargo. You need revenue to keep a government running, otherwise it collapses, or US regime change.

Regardless of how evil anyone thinks China is in this equation, they're the lesser of evils here. Venezuela isn't that big in debt to the Chinese, considering how much oil resources they got, it's not a big deal, and the most pressing issue is US aggression and embargo.
Russia swooped in to be Venezuela's protector against the evil United States, like the same scenario in every nation, good guy vs bad guy, Venezuela sold them controlling interest in Citgo, their state oil company and they sent their gold to Russia for safe keeping because they knew the US special forces was plotting to steal it all.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo

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Citgo Petroleum Corporation (or Citgo, stylized as CITGO) is a United States–based refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products.[4] Headquartered in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, it is majority-owned by PDVSA, a state-owned company of the Venezuelan government (although due to U.S. sanctions in 2019, they no longer economically benefit from Citgo).[5]
Yeah, remember thos Citgo gas station? Anyone remember in the late 90's the Citgo gas stations started selling gasoline at 70 cents a gallon? Then Israel/US started operations against Venezuela , same thing SAddam did, started undercutting global price fixing.

That's what it's all about. The jews set the prices of ALL THINGS worldwide, and anybody who tries to alter those fixed prices gets attacked by the US miltary. We are talking dental, medical, gas, gold, hotels, food, they want global price fixing on everything. Even wages. Then they tell you they can't fix rent or housing prices,b ecause it's all free market forces. THERE ARE NO FREE MARKET FORCES!!! The jews set the prices of EVERYTHING on their fucking wall street computers, including stocks, bonds, commodities.


This is what happens when you sell oil too cheap on the world market.



Because they don't want the population explosion that occurs if the cost of living becomes too cheap, well that's what they tell their snob traitor class, who think they are better than everyone else for being traitor scum. Meanwhile they subsidize blacks have dozens of out of wedlock children, because they want to smash and exterminate the whites, they hand out trillions to black African countries in 'loans' they default on and white nations are stuck holding the bag on, YOU financed the 2 billion people in Africa, while Jews sterilize you with vaccines, tetanus shots, plastics, stress, poverty.

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Venezuelans voted to create a new state in Guayana Esequiba, a disputed oil-rich region that makes up about two-thirds of Guyana's territory

by Dave DeCamp Posted on December 7, 2023

The US military said Thursday that it would conduct flight operations in Guyana amid tensions between the Caribbean nation and its neighbor Venezuela over the disputed Guayana Esequiba region.

Guayana Esequiba is an oil-rich region that makes up about two-thirds of the territory of the state of Guyana, which gained independence from Britain in 1966. In 1899, an American-British tribunal ruled that the territory belonged to the UK, a position that was rejected by Venezuela.

Venezuela, the UK, and then-British Guiana reached a new agreement in 1966, known as the Geneva Agreement, to reach a mutually satisfactory solution to the dispute. The International Court of Justice opened a case into the dispute in 2018, but a decision is still expected to be years away.

Tensions have risen in recent years over the dispute as more oil discoveries in Guayana Esequiba continue to be made. The American energy giant ExxonMobil discovered massive oil reserves off the coast of Guyana in waters claimed by Venezuela and has been involved in a major offshore drilling project.



Guyana Esequibo region as claimed by Venezuela
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/07/...uela-tensions/
 
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Venezuelan, Guyanese presidents to meet amid tensions over oil-rich Essequibo region


Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart, Irfaan Ali, will meet Thursday on their countries' growing dispute over the oil-rich region of Essequibo, amid mounting international warnings against escalating the row.

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Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, left, and Chairman of the Special Commission for the Defence of Guyana Essequibo Hermann Escarra, unveil Venezuela's new map that includes the Essequibo territory, a swath of land that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela on December 8, 2023. © Matias Delacroix, AP

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The meeting will be held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, according to the Caribbean country's Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had also been invited at both sides' request.

Gonsalves, whose country currently chairs the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, said in a letter to Maduro and Ali that the meeting would be held under the auspices of that organization and another regional body, the Caribbean Community.

There is an "urgent need to de-escalate the conflict and institute an appropriate dialogue, face-to-face," Gonsalves said.

"Both of you have concurred with this assessment in the quest of peaceful coexistence, the application and respect of international law, and the avoidance of the use or threats of force."

Tension has soared over Essequibo, which has historically been controlled by Guyana, since Maduro's government held a controversial referendum last weekend in which 95 percent of voters supported declaring Venezuela its rightful owner, according to official results.
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