US stoking Venezuela-Guyana territorial dispute
US stoking Venezuela-Guyana territorial dispute
Xinhua, July 20, 2015
The United States is stoking a long-running territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela in a bid to derail the latter's reformist political influence in Latin America, according to a political observer.
Eleazar Diaz Rangel, the Director of Venezuelan Daily Ultimas Noticias, said the U.S. State Departments' objectives in the region are clear, and it is using oil company Exxon Mobil and the government of Guyana to achieve them. In his regular Sunday column on the Havana-based news agency Prensa Latina, Diaz Rangel noted that David Goldwyn, the State Department's special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, traveled to Guyana in 2010, revealing U.S. interest in the region.
At the time it emerged that the small South American nation, which borders Venezuela to the east, was part of a U.S. program in energy management and training. Dario Mortandy, Venezuela's ambassador to Guayana from 2007 to 2012, recently said the program was being implemented by transnational companies, under the guidance of the State Department, and it "once again threatens our access to the Atlantic."
According to Prensa Latina, U.S. influence in Guyana gradually increased following Goldwyn's visit to the point where the country's current government, headed by President David Granger, is serving the interests of big U.S. oil firms, specifically Exxon Mobil.
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