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The Duran Podcast

Searching for a solution between Venezuela and Guyana

The Duran Podcast

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4.4650 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Searching for a solution between Venezuela and Guyana

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's do a follow-up video on the situation in Guyana with Venezuela.

0:07.0

We've had the referendum as expected.

0:11.0

It was in favor of Maduro and Venezuela's plan to annex this part of Guyana, a huge part of Guyana, I think two-thirds of the territory.

0:26.3

And as we said in our first video on this topic, a lot of this, if not all of this, is connected

0:32.9

to the discovery of the extraction of oil off the coast of Guyana or what Venezuela sees off

0:41.4

their waters or that's the dispute I guess that's that we're heading into and we've seen

0:50.6

troop movements now as well even though I get the sense that Maduro doesn't want

0:55.5

a military intervention in Guyana. We are seeing troops, Venezuelan troops moving to the border.

1:02.1

Guyana has issued a statement essentially asking the United States to get involved. And Maduro, from what I understand, he is trying to

1:16.0

see various members of the BRICS nations. I imagine he's looking for advice as to how to approach

1:24.8

this, because Maduro is in a difficult position. There would be people

1:30.8

that argue that he was pushed into this position with Guyana, with Exxon in the United States,

1:38.5

and perhaps the U.S. season opening with regards to the Guyana, Venezuela, and the energy resources in the region.

1:47.1

And so there is the argument that Maduro was pushed into this.

1:51.6

But it's a tough situation for him.

1:56.5

It's a very tough.

1:57.8

It's a very tough situation. And the US does get involved. It's a very, very tough situation.

2:01.6

And I go back to what we said in our previous program, that if you were to speak to him,

2:09.3

I think he would tell you that he has been maneuvered into the situation.

2:13.3

I mean, this has been deliberately set up in the way that it has been in order to put him in a very difficult situation.

2:21.2

Indeed, can I just say, first of all, if we go to Venezuela,

2:24.3

the important thing to understand is that there is across the board,

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