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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Guyana Incited by US to Enter Into Conflict With Venezuela</h1>October 5, 2023</div>
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<p><img width="399" height="288" src="https://orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/230728-A-BS728-1001-e1696460070106.webp" alt="US Southern Command chief General Laura Richardson leading a meeting with Guyana's Defense Force Chief of Staff Brigadier Omar Khan on July 27, 2023. Photo: US Southern Command/file photo." class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;"> </p>
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US Southern Command chief General Laura
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Brigadier Omar Khan on July 27, 2023. Photo: US Southern Command/file
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<p>Caracas warned about US interference in Guyana and how
the US Southern Command uses Guyana to orchestrate attacks against
Venezuela. In an interview with Sputnik, analyst Martín Pulgar accused
Washington of the “economic and political exploitation” of the Essequibo
territory against the interests of Venezuela.</p>
<p>The Essequibo territory, which includes around 160,000 square
kilometers, has large oil reserves, which is why—in the words of the
Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro—the US has carried out an “insolent
interference” over the disputed territory, through the direct
intervention of US companies such as ExxonMobil and under the military
support of the US Southern Command.</p>
<p>Likewise, the Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodríguez denounced
the US Southern Command for targeting the Essequibo as “an excellent
territory to attack Venezuela. It is an armed aggression against the
country, against all of Latin America and the Caribbean, and we call for
peace,” said the vice president on October 2, during the ninth meeting
of the Puebla Group in Mexico.</p>
<p>In this regard, Venezuelan political scientist Martín Pulgar told
Sputnik that “the United States sees, on the one hand, the possibility
of getting its hands on the oil that is in those areas, through
instruments such as these transnational oil corporations.” Secondly,
Guyana has been identified by the US as an “instrument for the
destabilization” of Venezuela, within the “old dream of the United
States of producing some type of destabilization and regime change” in
the Caribbean country, he added.</p>
<p>According to the expert, the “economic exploitation” by the US occurs
in a context of “geopolitical dispute with China and Russia,” a
scenario in which “they [the US] need that reliable source of energy
resources that would be … in their backyard, as they define us in Latin
America.”</p>
<p>Pulgar said that Washington, in the way that it previously used
Colombia, under the presidency of Iván Duque (2018-2022), now uses
Guyana” as a “platform for a military intervention” in Venezuela,
through the constant presence of members of the US Southern Command in
the Essequibo territory.</p>
<p>According to the Venezuelan political scientist, the US “continues to
dream of regime change, of a military intervention to consolidate
Venezuela as a projection of their interests in Latin America. And
Guyana seems to lend itself to this game of the United States.”</p>
<p>The analyst warned that it is “the same action continued since the
attempted coup d’état: the promotion of opposition marches to generate
chaos in Venezuela [and] the creation of pockets of violence, called <em>guarimbas</em>, to generate some type of social outbreak,” he pointed out.</p>
<p>Along with the destabilization and the “economic war” against
Caracas, “a scenario of force is now being proposed” in Guyana, which
would allow the generation of “some type of border incident … that would
force a humanitarian intervention in Venezuela,” Pulgar added.</p>
<p>Starting in 2015, Guyana began to tender hydrocarbon exploration
licenses in the Essequibo region, a territory whose sovereignty is
claimed by Venezuela and Guyana. Venezuela, Britain, and the authorities
of British Guiana signed an agreement in Geneva in 1966, reaching a
peaceful solution to the dispute. This agreement stipulates that any
economic exploitation of the territory or any dispute resolution
mechanism should by mutually agreed to by both countries. When Guyana
was subsequently granted independence by Britain, the independent nation
of Guyana consented to become a party to the Geneva Agreement.</p>
<p>Following the unilateral launch of oil exploration projects by
Guyana, on September 21, the National Assembly of Venezuela called a
referendum to consult citizens on the ratification of Venezuela’s rights
over the Essequibo territory.</p>
<p>(<a href="https://sputniknews.lat/20231004/guyana-incitada-por-eeuu-para-entrar-en-conflicto-con-venezuela-1144368193.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sputnik</a>) with Orinoco Tribune content</p>
<p>Translation: Orinoco Tribune</p>
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