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Preview: Colleague Joseph Humire comments on the Venezuela aggression toward its tiny oil-rich neighbor, Guyana and the prospect of military annexation. More tonight

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Preview: Colleague Joseph Humire comments on the Venezuela aggression toward its tiny oil-rich neighbor, Guyana and the prospect of military annexation. More tonight.
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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, speaking with colleague Joseph Umire, whose traveling is in Colombia,

0:06.3

about a sudden move long anticipated by Joseph, Venezuela, with its large military and its fleet,

0:15.1

moving against tiny Guyana. Why? Because there's a huge oil deposit discovered by Exxon in these last years in the waters of Guyana.

0:27.1

And that huge oil deposit is light, sweet crude, the best of all. Venezuela is claiming possession of this same territory or much of it, having to do with a dispute from

0:40.1

the 19th century. It is a land grab, but at the same time, it's the giant leaning in on

0:47.9

Guyana, and what's to protect Guyana? There was a British patrol boat there last year, but not now. And suddenly Venezuela

0:56.9

showed up in Guyanese waters with a stealth technology boat making claims or following

1:05.9

through on claims. Venezuela protesting. And Joseph explains here, this will get very complicated. There's an international

1:13.6

court to decide some of the territory boundaries, but it's very clearly an annexation move by

1:21.2

Venezuela. More of this tonight. Juan.

1:29.9

This is CBSI on the world.

1:31.0

The New World Report.

1:34.4

My colleagues, Joseph Vumar, Executive Director of Secure Free Society.

1:35.0

He's traveling.

1:36.3

He's in Bogota, Colombia.

1:41.6

And Ernest Sara Ujou, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Brazil, he's in North America.

1:42.3

We begin in Bogota, Colombia. Joseph, quickly, these last

1:46.3

weeks have been rocky to understate for Gustavo Petro, elected popularly some years ago. However,

1:55.4

firing at the cabinet momentarily stunned everybody and then claiming that a cartel with two anti-air missiles was

2:04.4

tracking to kill him and then beginning to hire a cabinet back some controversial some not

2:10.7

the approval rating is very low and perhaps going lower can we understand why gustavo Petro is struggling? Good evening to you, Joseph.

2:20.3

Good evening, John. Well, it's very clear why he's struggling because he has proven to be very

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