U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking in Tokyo on Monday shortly after the announcement was made, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned that the result reflected neither the will nor the votes of the Venezuelan people. He called for election officials to publish the full results transparently and immediately and said the U.S. and the international community would respond accordingly.
O boy this is gonna be civil. Does the United States have an interest in Venezuelas election because they have the largest oil reserves in the world? Or do they really care about the people in a foreign nation?
Venezuelan oil is rich in sulphur, so it is less attractive. It requires special infrastructure and buyers who have the installed capacity to deal with heavy crudes, like China and India.
PS: funnily enough, Guyana’s crude is from a different geological segment and of higher quality and highly valuable, no wonder Maduro wants to annex it.
The US couped Guyana back in the 60s and never let the country out from under its boot heel.
That’s an extremely flimsy claim given the PPP, an explicitly Marxist party, has held power in Guyana multiple times including this exact moment. I guess socialist solidarity ends when there are resources to extract?
And yes I am aware the party just removed ML and socialism from their constitution but that hardly makes them US stooges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfaan_Ali#Candidacy
Explicitly Marxist guy who privatizes state lands to his business buddies for a fifth their asking price. Sounds very Marxist.
And yet he’s still a leader of the party that Kennedy tried to sideline in the coup you mentioned. He’s hardly the first person to sell out for personal gain.
A party that’s been hollowed out by corruption. It’s no more the Party of Marxism than the American Republican Party is the Party of Lincoln.
I don’t disagree. It also fittingly applies to PSUV
Great, even if true, let’s start an international war to fix it, right Sr. Maduro?
One man’s illegal invasion is another man’s democratic liberation. But this whole thing reeks of the Iraq/Kuwait conflict of '91, complete with arguments over who owns which oil field and shady corporate executives leaning on domestic news media to get people’s hate up.
No, no it isn’t, Saddam invaded Kuwait to annex it. Let’s hope Maduro does not try to invade Guyana to annex it.
Saddam invaded Kuwait to halt their slant drilling project into the transboundary Rumaila oil field.
Even if that were the only reason, that has no relation to Guyana, because these are geologically independent reservoirs.
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And also because Kuwait was the only party involved that refused some debt forgiveness for Iraq’s losses in the Iran/Iraq war backed by the US and its allies.