Venezuela to hold a referendum on annexation of 70% of Guyana

[Etelfrido]

https://oilnow.gy/featured/guyana-warns-against-international-crime-of-aggression-as-venezuela-intensifies-efforts-to-grab-territory/

The Government of Guyana has issued a strong statement expressing its firm rejection of the recent move by the National Electoral Council of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to include questions in a national referendum, scheduled for December 3, 2023, that aim to assert Venezuela’s claim to over two-thirds of Guyana’s national territory.


In a detailed response, Guyana’s government singled out the fifth question on the referendum as particularly concerning. This question, it said, “brazenly seeks the approval of the Venezuelan people for the creation of a new Venezuelan State consisting of Guyana’s Essequibo Region, which would be incorporated into the national territory of Venezuela, and the granting of Venezuelan citizenship to the population.”


The Guyanese government referenced the Geneva Agreement and principles of international law in addressing the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award, a matter currently before the International Court of Justice. The court has already ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear the case and Guyana has encouraged Venezuela to participate.

https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/10/25/govt-opposition-unite-against-venezuelas-threats/

President Irfaan Ali and Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton on Tuesday met at the Office of the President to discuss the existential threat by Venezuela to Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and reaffirming each other’s commitment to defend this country’s interest.

[...] In July 1931, Venezuela concluded a boundary agreement with Brazil that expressly confirmed the tri-junction point of the boundaries of British Guiana, Venezuela and Brazil as described in the 1899 Award. For more than sixty years, Venezuela gave full effect to that Award, and never raised a concern as to its validity and binding legal effects.


[...] Only on Monday the Guyana Government deplored the move by Venezuela to seek a referendum to annex the Essequibo as it continues to further its unlawful claims to the mineral-rich region of this country. Venezuela media reported on Monday that the country’s electoral commission will ask its citizens to answer five questions at a referendum billed for December 3, 2023 as part of the Bolivarian Republic’s claims to the Essequibo.


The five questions are:


1. Do you agree to reject by all means in accordance with the law the line fraudulently imposed by the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899 that seeks to deprive us of our Guayana Esequiba?
2. Do you support the 1966 Geneva Agreement as the only valid legal instrument to reach a practical and satisfactory solution for Venezuela and Guyana regarding the controversy over the territory of Guayana Esequiba?
3. Do you agree with Venezuela’s historical position of not recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to resolve the territorial controversy over Guayana Esequiba?
4. Do you agree to oppose by all means in accordance with the law Guyana’s claim to unilaterally dispose of a sea pending delimitation illegally and in violation of international law?
5. Do you agree with the creation of the Guayana Esequiba state and the development of an accelerated plan for the comprehensive care of the current and future population of that territory that includes, among others, the granting of citizenship and Venezuelan identity card in accordance with the Geneva Agreement and international law, consequently incorporating said state on the map of Venezuelan territory?

https://bnn.network/world/venezuela/venezuelas-essequibo-referendum-sparks-domestic-and-international-criticism/

Among the strongest critics is Rocío San Miguel, who lambasted the content of the referendum questions as an extended mockery to Venezuelans. According to her, the referendum is a manifestation of internal politics rather than a genuine attempt at foreign policy and territorial sovereignty defense. She warned of a potential backlash against Venezuelans who choose not to participate, with the threat of being labeled as ‘traitors to the homeland.’

[Etelfrido]

Could this be the beginning of a resurgence of Gran Colombia (Gran Venezuela)?

[Etelfrido]

https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/venez...en-vivo-831968

https://elcomercio.pe/mundo/venezuel...o-cne-noticia/

[Your Old Comrade]

At this point, they are basically asking for a U.S invasion. Hey Venezuela: you know that Matthew 7:7 says bout asking, right ? Ask and thou shall receive!

[CosmoLady]

At this point, they are basically asking for a U.S invasion. Hey Venezuela: you know that Matthew 7:7 says bout asking, right ? Ask and thou shall receive!

In past decades, yes this would provoke a US invasion!

But currently the US is in a very weak position with Ukraine and the Middle East, and is worried about China,
and is not about to enter a jungle war in South America.

The US is too overextended and preoccupied to care about Latin America.
The US has neglected its strategic interests in Latin America for most of the 21st century with the start of the War on Terror;
most Latin American leaders are now anti-American leftists, which would have been unthinkable during the Cold War.

Biden has greatly relaxed sanctions on Venezuela,
and the US is now crippling its own domestic production due to the Green agenda while buying oil from Venezuela.

Western Guyana is rich in oil, and very few people live there, and Guyana has no military to speak of,
while the Venezuelan military is a significant force embedded with Russian advisors.

Russia is apparently encouraging Venezuela and many African nations to stand up to the West and take control of natural resources,
to form a cartel of natural resource producers, which will become the basis for the value of a new international currency.

Google Maps has already re-drawn the borders of Guyana. (Google is of course full of CIA people and is part of the US regime.)
Apparently the Venezuelan annexation has already been accepted as inevitable. The US media will try to keep it quiet though.

This is significant only because this shows the US getting weaker.
As the US becomes overextended and overwhelmed around the world,
the US will gradually lose control of areas of the world: first Africa and Latin America, then eventually Asia, maybe eventually Europe.

[Nurzat]

would Venezuela and Colombia ever unite? is Great Colombia an idea for anyone in the region? to also include Ecuador and that part of Guyana.

[Scarface F]

Isn't Guyana very ethnically and culturally different than Venezuela, being mostly Indian/south Asian? Can't see how they could justify it.

[Tooting Carmen]

Isn't Guyana very ethnically different than Venezuela, being mostly Indian/south Asian?

It's roughly equally split between South Asians and Blacks, but yes.

Anyway, Gran Colombia in and of itself would not be such a bad idea, and would possibly be a real force at least regionally if not globally, but not with the current leaders of the countries. Nevertheless, Guyana was never part of Gran Colombia or Venezuela, and this referendum is illegal and opportunistic.

[Tooting Carmen]

would Venezuela and Colombia ever unite? is Great Colombia an idea for anyone in the region? to also include Ecuador and that part of Guyana.

If it ever occurs, which is unlikely, it should be done by consent through referenda.

[CosmoLady]

Isn't Guyana very ethnically and culturally different than Venezuela, being mostly Indian/south Asian? Can't see how they could justify it.

Venezuela/Russia does not need to justify annexing Guyana, "might makes right", what is the US going to do? Nothing much

The Bolivarian ideology of Chavez/Maduro can be the excuse for anything though,
from territorial conquest to dictatorship to socialism