Brazil deploys troops to Venezuela border

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Brazil deploys troops to Venezuela border

7 December 2023

By Katy Watson
BBC South America correspondent, São Paulo

Brazil says that it is deploying troops along its border with Venezuela after the Venezuelan government announced plans to incorporate an area controlled by Guyana into its territory.

The oil-rich Essequibo region has been in dispute since the 19th Century when Guyana was a British colony.

Venezuela renewed its land claims after offshore oil and gas reserves were discovered a few years ago.

Tensions have been rising since a referendum on Sunday in Venezuela.

More than 95% of voters are said to have supported the government's claim to Essequibo.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67645018

[2naSalit]

1. Except...

The vote turnout was paltry yet the gov't takes it as a mandate.

There's going to be a lot of trouble over this and ExxonMobil have a hand in it, a big hand... of course.

ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110888220

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Wrong party. I think Maduro wants to start a war

Maduro’s proposed land-grab is as shameless as the US’s Polk-era politicos’ efforts to slice off northern Mexico to fulfil “Manifest Destiny.”

[2naSalit]

3. I think it's some of both.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. If the people of that part of Guyana were allowed to vote in

in an honest referendum as to whether they want to become Venezuelans, I might say that Maduro had reason to annex that territory. The folks living in that part of Guyana weren’t asked and I doubt they’d approve of their annexation.

I also don’t believe that a majority of the people living outside of Texas In territory annexed by the terms of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Native American or not, nomadic or settled, would have wanted to be annexed by the US either.