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1/2: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela threatens to annex most of tiny Guyana: bluff or Little Green Men? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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1/2: #NewWorldReport: Venezuela threatens to annex most of tiny Guyana: bluff or Little Green Men? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/what-is-border-dispute-between-venezuela-guyana-2023-12-06/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-maduro-push-oil-exploration-disputed-territory-2023-12-06/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-sees-no-risk-armed-conflict-between-guyana-venezuela-minister-2023-12-06/

1945 Venezuela coup

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This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor of Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College.

0:10.0

We're looking at one small piece of territory on the planet as the Kibo River and the territory is about 62,000 square miles,

0:20.0

triple canopy jungle, lush as you can imagine in a gram-grain novel, and a tiny state less

0:26.7

than 800,000 people, many of whom are in the diaspora in New York City, Brooklyn, I'm told.

0:34.0

But the Guyanese are the lucky winners of planet Earth.

0:38.4

They have 11 billion discoverable barrels of oil offshore

0:43.0

a region called Esquipo.

0:45.0

However, Venezuela, the large and rogue state to the north

0:50.0

is now claiming again the same territory.

0:54.4

That is the dispute, but how does it connect to the

0:58.2

two wars in Europe and a third war threatened?

1:00.8

Professor, I make the detail here that Brazil is worried.

1:05.0

Brazilian foreign minister Maura Viera speaking to Reuters in Rio last week, oh, within these last hours, dismissed the risk of an armed clash between

1:16.3

Brazil's two neighbors. However, military, Brazilian military has reinforced the border region.

1:24.0

That doesn't sound like a dismissal.

1:26.0

That sounds like a possibility.

1:28.0

And at the same time, we have non-transperancy in Caracas but the last time I checked

1:34.6

Hezbollah was suspect Tehran was suspect Moscow certainly with the equipment Beijing

1:41.4

always ready to exploit a possibility such as a discovery of oil.

1:46.7

So Venezuela moves inside a general understanding that the U.S. and its allies are tied down in Europe.

1:55.0

Now I'm being suspicious only because history says

2:00.0

annexations are never isolated incidents.

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