https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/maduro-is-about-to-invade-guyana

Maduro Is About To Invade Guyana - We Will Do Nothing To Stop Him

Joe Biden is mentally compromised. He is bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party. His national security team is composed of similar individuals, all of whom place multiple interests above their loyalty to the people of the United States. Our foreign policy is in free fall, and the world is catching fire.

The latest nascent disaster? An impending invasion of Guyana by the hostile Marxist regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.

Venezuela claims roughly two-thirds of the neighboring nation of Guyana as its own. Maduro, no doubt sure that Biden will do nothing to interfere, has announced a national referendum at which he will ask the people of Venezuela whether he should simply declare this part of Guyana a new Venezuelan state, and then occupy it.

Elections in Venezuela are never really in doubt. There is as much chance the referendum will fail as that Maduro will be voted out of office. In other words, it appears Maduro is about to attack Guyana.

Why? Because Guyana may be a small country but it is rich in oil, gold, and copper. In particular, Guyana controls lucrative offshore oil fields being developed by multiple companies including Exxon.

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As all of this has been perculating and heading toward possible war, the Biden administration, never one to miss a chance to project weakness decided to suspend sanctions on Venezuelan oil and investments in the country’s oil and gas sector. Wars can be expensive. Apparently, Joe wanted to make sure Maduro had the cash on hand for this one.

The Biden administration justified the lifting of sanctions saying that Venezuela was making progress toward ensuring fair elections in 2024. Given that the Biden administration has shown no similar inclination it seems unlikely Maduro’s assurances amount to anything. It should also be noted that while Joe seems eager to help the Venezuelan oil industry he continues to wage war on American domestic fossil fuel production.

Venezuela is a communist dictatorship. It has a longstanding operational relationship with Iran and Hezbollah. Maduro provides Hezbollah operatives with fully backstopped alias documents so that they can operate clandestinely worldwide including inside the United States. Maduro has also been dumping inmates from his country’s jails into the flood of Venezuelans fleeing his nation and walking across our now-open southern border.

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Good read.

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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/venezuela-guyana-nicolas-maduro/2023/12/01/id/1144387/

Venezuela Threatens Tiny Guyana as Vote Nears

The United Nations' top court Friday ordered Venezuela not to take any action that would alter Guyana's control over a disputed territory, but did not specifically ban it from holding a referendum Sunday on the territory's future.

Guyana had asked the International Court of Justice to order a halt to parts of the planned referendum. The court verdict did not refer to the referendum, but it ruled that Venezuela must "refrain from taking any action which would modify that situation that currently prevails" in the disputed Essequibo region, which makes up some two-thirds of Guyana.

The legally binding ruling remains in place until a case brought by Guyana against Venezuela on the future of the region is considered by the court.

Venezuela does not recognize the International Court of Justice's jurisdiction in the decades-old dispute over the Essequibo region and is expected to press ahead with the referendum regardless of what its judges decide.

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