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    Venezuela Troops Line Up To Stop Humanitarian Aid

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-from-colombia

    Juan Andrés Mejía, a lawmaker from Guaidó’s party, Voluntad Popular (People’s Will), told the Guardian that trying to deliver aid across Venezuela’s borders was a double challenge to Maduro’s regime – as well as an effort to alleviate a humanitarian crisis that has seen millions of Venezuelans flee abroad.

    “The government has a dilemma … Either they let it in [and look weak] or they refuse it, which I don’t think they will because they are not so stupid, and they will also lose. So it is a win-win situation for us – and for the people.”
    I appreciate the optimism, but Maduro has repeatedly demonstrated that he will allow people to starve and die to protect his regime.



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    Fake news, that bridge has never been open and the border crossing 10 km down the road is open and used daily. Huge surprise a CIA plant would lie.

    14:28...
    "The Patriarch"

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    Why is this in US News?
    "The Patriarch"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    Why is this in US News?
    Because there's going to be some old fashioned regime change...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    Fake news, that bridge has never been open and the border crossing 10 km down the road is open and used daily. Huge surprise a CIA plant would lie.

    14:28...
    Bigger than believing that RT isn't Russian propaganda?

    Do you read Spanish? https://www.lapatilla.com/2019/02/06...ezolana-fotos/



    Military officials blocked the bridge on the border with Colombia on Tuesday, at a time when humanitarian aid is expected due to the severe shortage of food and medicines in the country, according to a deputy of the National Assembly, Franklyn Duarte.

    The cistern of a fuel transport galley and a gigantic cargo container were crossed on the road to close the pass on the Tienditas bridge, which connects the towns of Cúcuta and Ureña found an AFP team in the area.

    Franklyn Duarte, a deputy for the state Táchira, said that "troops from the Armed Forces blocked the pass" in the afternoon.
    I just watched the video. She also clearly said that they moved the tanker/containers and the military into place.

    LOL at the "...nighttime crossing for criminals!" The "criminals" are Venezuelan people were crossing to buy food and medicine.

    It's been reported by multiple outlets. Everybody EXCEPT Russia.

    And Maduro said he was going to block the humanitarian aid, as he's been doing for the past 2 years. So which is it? Is he blocking food and medicine, or not?
    Last edited by angelatc; 02-13-2019 at 10:56 AM.

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    They must have read up on all the "humanitarian aid" being run through the Benghazi consulate by Hillary and State, heading for Syria.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul

    "We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book

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    Bush rejects Chávez aid

    An offer of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts and 50 tonnes of food, has been rejected, according to the civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson.
    Mr Jackson said the offer from the Venezuelan leader, whom he recently met, included 10 water purification plants, 18 power generation plants and 20 tonnes of bottled water.


    The offer was made in a letter from the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, Bernardo Alvarez, to the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco.

    It was one of many from governments and aid organisations across the world, despite allegations by many conservative commentators and bloggers that the US is being ignored by countries it has helped during crises.

    Mr Jackson said the rejection of the offer from one of Mr Bush's most outspoken political foes was a sign the federal government was incapable of handling the crisis properly. "This may be Mr Bush's worst hour of leadership," said Mr Jackson.

    Other nations have been providing aid: Greece has offered cruise ships to help house evacuees; Sweden is making aircraft available to transfer supplies; El Salvador has offered troops ; Russia and Switzerland are providing generators, tents and meals. Other countries are sending people to assist in search-and-rescue: France and Latvia have sent teams with experience in disaster areas and the Norwegian navy was sending divers. Britain and Germany have sent relief experts and food rations.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rricanekatrina

    This is going to piss off the imperialist neocons around here but the president of a country has the right to reject aid coming from certain countries. No matter the situation the country is facing, nobody should be forced into accepting anything from anyone. They reject the trojan horse package sent by the US and that should be the end of the story.We can't keep beating this dead horse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    the president of a country has the right to reject aid coming from certain countries.
    Do you think the president has a right not just to reject aid for himself, but to block it forcibly and prevent others in his country from being able to access it?



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    Quote Originally Posted by devil21 View Post
    They must have read up on all the "humanitarian aid" being run through the Benghazi consulate by Hillary and State, heading for Syria.
    Sure. I understand why he wouldn't accept aid from the US. But why won't he accept it from anybody else? Either the whole world is against him, even his allies, or he's just another failed leader in a corrupt banana republic desperately clinging to power while his countrymen starve to death. I'm more inclined to believe the latter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswhine View Post
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rricanekatrina

    This is going to piss off the imperialist neocons around here but the president of a country has the right to reject aid coming from certain countries. No matter the situation the country is facing, nobody should be forced into accepting anything from anyone. They reject the trojan horse package sent by the US and that should be the end of the story.We can't keep beating this dead horse.
    It was wrong when neocon Bush did it too. See any consistency there?

    ANd the horses were dead ages ago. They ate them last year, remember? Nothing left to beat.
    Last edited by angelatc; 02-13-2019 at 11:13 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Sure. I understand why he wouldn't accept aid from the US. But why won't he accept it from anybody else? Either the whole world is against him, even his allies, or he's just another failed leader in a corrupt banana republic desperately clinging to power while his countrymen starve to death. I'm more inclined to believe the latter.
    Where in the article did it mention aid coming from anyone other than the US? Only pics I can find of "aid" is of USAID (CIA front) stuff.

    "Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul

    "We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    It was wrong when neocon Bush did it too. See any consistency there?

    ANd the horses were dead ages ago. They ate them last year, remember? Nothing left to beat.
    Chavez the evil socialist got the hint and stopped pushing, Trump on the otherhand don't know when to stop. Its really that simple, your neighbour lost his health insurance, his children are hungry and dirty, he is also sick/probably dying and after offering to help on many occasions, he continues to refuse help from YOU(who could probably help him and his family the most) while continuing to accept help from others. It awful knowing that he could really improve his lot if only he took your gift. As the head of the household, he has the right to do what he is doing.

    The US can setup more humanitarian aid outside the border and anyone who needs it can leave the country for it. They have seen how humanitarian aid has morphed into military aid when the US is in control and they want no part of it.

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    January 29, 2019
    The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader

    [B]Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization.[/B
    By Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal

    Before the fateful day of January 22, fewer than one in five Venezuelans had heard of Juan Guaidó. Only a few months ago, the 35-year-old was an obscure character in a politically marginal far-right group closely associated with gruesome acts of street violence. Even in his own party, Guaidó had been a mid-level figure in the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which is now held under contempt according to Venezuela’s constitution.

    But after a single phone call from from US Vice President Mike Pence, Guaidó proclaimed himself president of Venezuela. Anointed as the leader of his country by Washington, a previously unknown political bottom-dweller was vaulted onto the international stage as the US-selected leader of the nation with the world’s largest oil reserves.

    Echoing the Washington consensus, the New York Times editorial board hailed Guaidó as a “credible rival” to Maduro with a “refreshing style and vision of taking the country forward.” The Bloomberg News editorial board applauded him for seeking “restoration of democracy” and the Wall Street Journal declared him “a new democratic leader.” Meanwhile, Canada, numerous European nations, Israel, and the bloc of right-wing Latin American governments known as the Lima Group recognized Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

    While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US government’s elite regime change factories. Alongside a cadre of right-wing student activists, Guaidó was cultivated to undermine Venezuela’s socialist-oriented government, destabilize the country, and one day seize power. Though he has been a minor figure in Venezuelan politics, he had spent years quietly demonstrated his worthiness in Washington’s halls of power.

    “Juan Guaidó is a character that has been created for this circumstance,” Marco Teruggi, an Argentinian sociologist and leading chronicler of Venezuelan politics, told The Grayzone. “It’s the logic of a laboratory – Guaidó is like a mixture of several elements that create a character who, in all honesty, oscillates between laughable and worrying.”

    Diego Sequera, a Venezuelan journalist and writer for the investigative outlet Misión Verdad, agreed: “Guaidó is more popular outside Venezuela than inside, especially in the elite Ivy League and Washington circles,” Sequera remarked to The Grayzone, “He’s a known character there, is predictably right-wing, and is considered loyal to the program.”

    While Guaidó is today sold as the face of democratic restoration, he spent his career in the most violent faction of Venezuela’s most radical opposition party, positioning himself at the forefront of one destabilization campaign after another. His party has been widely discredited inside Venezuela, and is held partly responsible for fragmenting a badly weakened opposition.

    Rest of the article here:
    https://grayzoneproject.com/2019/01/...s-coup-leader/
    Last edited by Ender; 02-13-2019 at 12:46 PM.
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    Oh, I'm pretty sure some of the U.S. aid is getting through.

    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Well , as a former soldier I can tell you if this shipment had 90 radios and only 19 rifles then there was another shipment of of 71 or more rifles that went where it was intended .
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    Quote Originally Posted by juleswin View Post
    As the head of the household, he has the right to do what he is doing.
    And you believe that the president of a country has this same right over the whole country that you say a head of a household has over his household?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    Before the fateful day of January 22, fewer than one in five Venezuelans had heard of Juan Guaidó. Only a few months ago, the 35-year-old was an obscure character in a politically marginal far-right group closely associated with gruesome acts of street violence. Even in his own party, Guaidó had been a mid-level figure in the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which is now held under contempt according to Venezuela’s constitution.
    Notice how this paragraph skips from a few months ago to January 22, ignoring the intervening time within which Guaidó was elected by the deputies of Venezuala's National Assembly to be its president, which, according to Venezuela's constitution puts him second in the line of succession of the president after the vice president.

    Even if he wasn't in a position like that a few months ago, he was prior to January 22.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Superfluous Man View Post
    Notice how this paragraph skips from a few months ago to January 22, ignoring the intervening time within which Guaidó was elected by the deputies of Venezuala's National Assembly to be its president, which, according to Venezuela's constitution puts him second in the line of succession of the president after the vice president.

    Even if he wasn't in a position like that a few months ago, he was prior to January 22.
    Read the whole article- Guaido has been under US tutelage for years, preparing him for a US final take-over.
    There is no spoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    Read the whole article- Guaido has been under US tutelage for years, preparing him for a US final take-over.
    the shah of venezuela.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    Read the whole article- Guaido has been under US tutelage for years, preparing him for a US final take-over.
    I get that. And I'm not in a position to argue with the conclusion.

    But the way they dishonestly represented the facts in that paragraph does not engender trust in the whole article.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    Bigger than believing that RT isn't Russian propaganda?

    Do you read Spanish? https://www.lapatilla.com/2019/02/06...ezolana-fotos/





    I just watched the video. She also clearly said that they moved the tanker/containers and the military into place.

    LOL at the "...nighttime crossing for criminals!" The "criminals" are Venezuelan people were crossing to buy food and medicine.

    It's been reported by multiple outlets. Everybody EXCEPT Russia.

    And Maduro said he was going to block the humanitarian aid, as he's been doing for the past 2 years. So which is it? Is he blocking food and medicine, or not?
    I see no reason to believe propaganda in one language over another. The fact remains that bridge has never been opened.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Suckers fall for this garbage every single time, over and over and over and over and over again.

    FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING (FAIR)

    9 FEB 2019

    The Trump administration’s now completely overt effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had a very successful public relations effort this week, as major Western media outlets uniformly echoed its simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly withholding foreign aid...snip

    ...All of the above articles—and scores more like it—repeated the same script: Maduro was blocking aid from the US “out of refusal to relinquish power,” preferring to starve “his own people” rather than feed them. It’s a simple case of good and evil—of a tyrannical, paranoid dictator not letting in aid to feed a starving population.

    Except three pieces of key context are missing. Context that, when presented to a neutral observer, would severely undermine the cartoonish narrative being advanced by US media.

    Both the Red Cross and UN warned the US not to engage in this aid PR stunt.
    The bridge in question is a visual metaphor contrived by the Trump administration of little practical relevance.
    The person in charge of US operations in Venezuela has a history of using aid as a cover to deliver weapons to right-wing mercenaries.
    (1) Not only has the international aid community not asked for the “aid,” earlier this week, both the International Red Cross and United Nations warned the US to explicitly not engage in these types of PR stunts. As Washington Post contributor Vincent Bevins pointed out, the transparent cynicism of these efforts was preemptively warned about by the groups actually charged with keeping starving people fed:

    https://fair.org/home/western-media-...-aid-pr-stunt/

    Did you suckers fall for this too?



    How about this?



    The US GOV hasn't told the truth about anything for at least 100 years.

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    Interventionism makes for strange bedfellows (not really). Funny (not really) how both the Dems and Repubs fall in line when it comes to intervention/overthrows for oil.

    Why are Dems pushing for intervention in Venezuela? Pelosi supports Guaido
    https://www.care2.com/causes/why-are...venezuela.html

    While this push has, so far, primarily come from President Trump and his administration, more recently Democrats — most notably Speaker Pelosi — have begun to openly demonstrate support for the forceful ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

    In a brief public statement, Pelosi explained her position, stating that the United States “must respect legitimate democratic processes” by supporting Maduro opposition leader Juan Guaido. She added that the U.S. “must support the people of Venezuela.” more
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul

    "We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peace Piper View Post
    Suckers fall for this garbage every single time, over and over and over and over and over again.

    FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING (FAIR)

    9 FEB 2019
    The Trump administration’s now completely overt effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had a very successful public relations effort this week, as major Western media outlets uniformly echoed its simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly withholding foreign aid...snip

    ...All of the above articles—and scores more like it—repeated the same script: Maduro was blocking aid from the US “out of refusal to relinquish power,” preferring to starve “his own people” rather than feed them. It’s a simple case of good and evil—of a tyrannical, paranoid dictator not letting in aid to feed a starving population.

    Except three pieces of key context are missing. Context that, when presented to a neutral observer, would severely undermine the cartoonish narrative being advanced by US media.

    Both the Red Cross and UN warned the US not to engage in this aid PR stunt.
    The bridge in question is a visual metaphor contrived by the Trump administration of little practical relevance.
    The person in charge of US operations in Venezuela has a history of using aid as a cover to deliver weapons to right-wing mercenaries.
    (1) Not only has the international aid community not asked for the “aid,” earlier this week, both the International Red Cross and United Nations warned the US to explicitly not engage in these types of PR stunts. As Washington Post contributor Vincent Bevins pointed out, the transparent cynicism of these efforts was preemptively warned about by the groups actually charged with keeping starving people fed:

    https://fair.org/home/western-media-...-aid-pr-stunt/

    Did you suckers fall for this too?



    How about this?



    The US GOV hasn't told the truth about anything for at least 100 years.

    Freedom and democracy can be messy.

    I'm still not convinced that neocons political slave masters are running the 'America-First' show.



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  29. #25
    Quote Originally Posted by Peace Piper View Post
    Suckers fall for this garbage every single time, over and over and over and over and over again.



    [url]https://ep-years.
    ANd yet the link you posted in the other thread indicates it really did happen.

    I liked you better when you were gone. We called that era The Obama Years. You'd swoop in every quarter to chirp some nonsense about solar or wind suddenly being cost effective then you'd leave when someone pointed out that wasn't true, only to pop back in and start another green propaganda piece a few months later.

    HOw $#@!ing dare you present yourself as some truth teller after 8 years of that bull$#@!.

    Not a peep out of you about Obama's Libya escapades.

    People like you are what killed the movement. NOw you're back, because the people pulling your strings want to see a Democrat in the White House.
    Last edited by angelatc; 02-14-2019 at 02:17 AM.

  30. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    ANd yet the link you posted in the other thread indicates it really did happen.

    I liked you better when you were gone. We called that era The Obama Years. You'd swoop in every quarter to chirp some nonsense about solar or wind suddenly being cost effective then you'd leave when someone pointed out that wasn't true, only to pop back in and start another green propaganda piece a few months later.

    HOw $#@!ing dare you present yourself as some truth teller after 8 years of that bull$#@!.

    Not a peep out of you about Obama's Libya escapades.

    People like you are what killed the movement. NOw you're back, because the people pulling your strings want to see a Democrat in the White House.
    Any movement (or forum) that fails to identify and expel those who undermine its fundamental principles is doomed to failure.
    We must either change or die and it's not looking too good right now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Any movement (or forum) that fails to identify and expel those who undermine its fundamental principles is doomed to failure.
    We must either change or die and it's not looking too good right now.
    We died a long time ago, and people like Peace Piper are what killed us. They didn't care too much what happened in the world during the Obama years, because the media told them not to.

    I could live with that. Seeing them flocking back here now - after 8 years of not supporting a single freedom candidate or effort - virtue signaling from up on high - is insulting at best and patronizing at worst.

  32. #28
    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    We died a long time ago, and people like Peace Piper are what killed us. They didn't care too much what happened in the world during the Obama years, because the media told them not to.

    I could live with that. Seeing them flocking back here now - after 8 years of not supporting a single freedom candidate or effort - virtue signaling from up on high - is insulting at best and patronizing at worst.
    The embers remain but they will be extinguished as well before Rand or some other candidate has a chance to fan them back into flames if the traitors and saboteurs are allowed to remain.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  33. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    ANd yet the link you posted in the other thread indicates it really did happen.
    .
    How do you know when you're right? It's when a liberal negs you for pointing out the truth. Peace Piper can't refute it, so he he lashed out via the feedback system then went back to his safe space.

  34. #30
    What’s Not Being Said About the Venezuela Oil War

    So far much of the discussion over what is driving the bizarre Trump Administration intervention into Venezuela centers around the comments of National Security Adviser John Bolton to claim it’s about oil. In a previous analysis we looked at the prospects of the huge Chavez Basin, formerly the Orinoco Basin, said to hold the world’s largest reserves of oil by some definitions. Now it’s becoming clearer that this de facto war is about far more than control of the heavy oil of the Chavez Basin in Venezuela.

    First it’s important to look at which oil companies were already staking various claims on the region’s oil prospects. Within Venezuela, Chinese oil companies led by China National Petroleum Corporation, and the Chinese government have been playing a major role since the Chavez era. In fact the role has become so great Venezuela’s government owes China some $61 billion. Because of the financial problems of the Maduro government, China has been taking debt repayment in form of oil. Since 2010 the Russian state oil company, Rosneft has been involved in joint projects with the Venezuela state PDVSA, mainly in the Orinoco/Chavez Belt. Some years ago Rosneft extended some $6 billion in loans to Venezuela to be also repaid in oil. A recent statement from Rosneft says that $2.3 billion is due by end of this year. Rosneft has participation in five oil projects and 100 percent in a gas project. In addition to CNPC and Rosneft, France’s Total SA, Norway’s Equinor, and US Chevron all hold minority stakes in Venezuela projects, with most vowing to stay despite the political crisis. That raises the question what they know beyond the well-documented heavy oil of Venezuela.

    The real prize?

    The real prize that these powerful international oil giants are eyeing likely lies well to the east of the Orinoco heavy oil fields where they now operate. The real prize is the ultimate control over one of the best-kept secrets in the oil industry, the huge oil reserves of a disputed area straddling Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. The region is called Guayana Esequiba. Some geologists believe the Esequiba region and its offshore could contain the world’s largest reserves of oil, oil of far better quality that the heavy Orinoco crude of Venezuela. The problem is that owing to the decades-long dispute between Venezuela and Guyana the true extent of that oil is not yet known.

    Historically, both Venezuela and Guyana, a former British colony, laid claim to Esequiba. In 1983 a so-called Port of Spain Protocol, between the governments of Venezuela and Guyana, declared a 12-year moratorium on the Venezuelan reclamation of Esequiba to allow time for peaceful resolution. Since then a special UN Representative has kept the situation frozen. Neither party has developed exploration of the reported huge oil deposits in the territory. In January 2018 the UN Secretary General referred the status of Esequiba to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where it sits today. Now it gets messy.

    In September 2011 the government of Guyana filed for an extension of its offshore Exclusive Economic Zone to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in order to extend its continental shelf by a further 150 nautical miles. To get UN permission, they declared the area was subject to no territorial disputes, ignoring the very active Venezuela dispute over Guayana Esequiba. Venezuela filed a strong protest. To further complicate the situation, Guyana awarded international oil exploration rights in the disputed maritime area.

    Exxon in Guyana


    In 2015 Guyana awarded an oil exploration contract to ExxonMobil, former company of former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Exxon soon discovered an oil field estimated at 5 billion barrels, significant enough to change the economy of tiny Guyana once production begins next year. Unlike the heavy and expensive oil of Orinoco/Chavez, the oil found offshore Guyana is high quality, light. Oil analysts cite an astonishing 82% success rate for Exxon drilling in frontier areas compared with industry averages of 35%. Wood Mackenzies analysts say the offshore region “will easily become the fourth largest oil producing nation in Latin America by the next decade, with chances to outperform the countries preceding it. If Venezuela and Mexico fail to address production declines, Guyana could quickly surpass them to number two.”

    Keep in mind until now this entire Esequiba region, offshore and on, had been off limits to oil exploration by mutual agreement of the countries. The Exxon Guyana discoveries confirmed the belief that the Esequiba region holds enormous oil resources.

    Here enters the complication of Venezuela’s Maduro government and the bizarre declaration of opposition National Assembly President Juan Guaido to be deemed legitimate president. The entire tragic drama now unfolding can be better understood if we look beyond Orinoco Belt oil to the huge untapped potential reserves of Esequiba.

    Since the 2015 Exxon finds, Venezuela has launched complaints with Guyana and on occasion interdicted Exxon oil exploration vessels. Complicating the situation for the Maduro regime is the fact that a partner of Exxon offshore Guyana in the disputed waters is the state oil company of Maduro’s largest creditor, China’s CNOOC.

    Imagine a scenario where Maduro’s regime is replaced by a free-market Guaido who reopens Venezuela to foreign oil interests and reprivatizes the state PDVSA. Then Guaido, with help from his various international friends, aggressively asserts Venezuela’s claims to Esequiba. Britain, France and Spain, all with major oil companies in the region, have joined the US in recognizing Guaido as interim president.

    https://journal-neo.org/2019/02/17/w...zuela-oil-war/
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