The relationships between Venezuela and United States They offer successive signs of an unremediable worsening before Joe Biden left the White House and, especially, from the arrival of Donald Trump. To the economic sanctions of Washington that affect Caracas sensitively the war rhetoric has been added. “There comes the Marco Rubio’s moron threatening Venezuela from Guyana; No one threatens Venezuela because this is the homeland of the Liberators“Nicolás Maduro said after the visit to Georgetown by the US Secretary of State. In front of the president of that country, Irfaan Ali, Rubio said that”It would be a big mistake and a very bad decision ” An aggression to an ally of the USA
The head of Trump’s diplomacy arrived in Guyana when Local Defense Forces and the United States Navy carry out joint military exercises in international waters and in the exclusive economic zone of the country. “We have a large armed and can reach almost anywhere, to any part of the world. And we have current commitments with Guyana, “he recalled. Rubio’s warning was introduced into the heart of the bilateral dispute between Venezuela and Guyana by the Esequibo, a territory of 160,000 km2 that is very rich in oil and natural resources that Caracas not only claims for itself in rhetorical terms: it has included it on the official map and on May 25, in the elections for governors, a position will also be at that region. In litigation. In the first quarter of 2024, the GDP of that country grew by 49.7%.
“This town if something has (it) that when they threaten it, When they hit him, he becomes more rebellious “Maduro replied. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said that the military will not tolerate “threats” of any foreign official. Padrino López, a fundamental ally of Maduro, said he will respond with “firmness and determination” before “any provocation or action that threatens territorial integrity and the sacred interests of the country.”
The difference
Guyana became independent from the United Kingdom in 1966 and, under his new status, inherited a dispute with the neighbor. An 1899 arbitration award He awarded him that vast territory that was under the domain of the British crown. Caracas claims an agreement signed in Geneva with London, before Guyanese independence. In the Swiss city the award was annulled and the foundations set for a negotiated solution. The arrival to power of Hugo Chávez, At the end of the nineties of the last century, the complaint between the two countries put in parentheses. The Bolivarian Commander aspired to be a Latin American reference and, also, in the Caribbean. To achieve this, he set bridges to Georgetown. Not only Chavez’s death, in April 2013, he reopened the door of tensions. Two years later, Exxonmobil discovered important oil deposits and the border controversies intensified.
“It is unusual to qualify our claim on the Esequibo territory illegitimate, Considering that the Geneva Agreement is the valid instrument signed by the parties involved in the territorial dispute. And it causes even greater concern, than the Cooperative Republic of Guyana intends to go to imperial interference, “said Padrino López.
In November 2023, Venezuela He celebrated a popular consultation on the issue of Esequibo in which half of the electoral roll voted. By virtue of a debatable result, given the low participation in the polls, the Miraflores Palace has been authorized to consider the region in dispute as its own and promised the population of the “Guyana Esequiba” through the Ministries of Health, Education and Planning, as well as delivering Venezuelan identity documents to its inhabitants. Caracas is proposed to prohibit the hiring of companies that operate or collaborate in the unilateral concessions given by Guyana in a sea that must be subject to a new delimitation. The difference has just reactivated after Trump’s battery battery against Caracas and with the presence of Rubio in Goergtown. “We will look for ways to (support them) in the long term, sustainably (…) eWe are committed as a nation, as a people, to be their partner in prosperity. We will not allow illegitimate territorial claims to be an obstacle to the development of this country, “said the US Secretary of State.
