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Guyana to 'stoutly resist' Venezuela plans to issue IDs to disputed Essequibo residents
Guyana on Sunday warned it would “stoutly resist” plans by Venezuela to register residents in Essequibo and issue them identification cards for the neighbouring Spanish-speaking nation. Venezuela claims the region and has launched an aggressive campaign at domestic and international level calling president David Granger a 'provocateur”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAmazing how quiet supposed regional leaders such as Brazil and Argentina are on Venezuela's imperialistic drive?
Jul 20th, 2015 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Surely it is incompatible with Mercosur's and UNASUR's principles to issue identification paperwork to another country's citizens!
Seriously, issuing identification papers for citizens of a foreign country!
Jul 20th, 2015 - 10:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just wondering where they get an accurate list of people from.
Wondering why Argentina hasn't done this.
But then again the public display of all the Falkland Islanders burning the id's would be rather humiliating for Argentina.
It looks as though Spanish speaking S. America wants to rid the continent of anyone who has the audacity to speak English as their native language. Latin American imperialism again but this time in the north of the continent.
Jul 20th, 2015 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0One wonders how venezuela plans to issue these cards. It can't, legally, cross the border. Is it going to post the cards? So the Guyanese government only has to intercept the cards, gather them up and take them all to the UN. Evidence of venezuela breaching the UN Charter!
Jul 20th, 2015 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuela's claim is similar to Argentina's inasmuch as it is based on uto possidetis juris which only 'customary law' and is not applicable to former British colonies: https://www.academia.edu/10573590/Falklands_-_Uti_Possidetis_Juris_and_Nootka_Sound_Convention_1790
Jul 20th, 2015 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All I can suggest to Guyana,
Jul 20th, 2015 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0is to put a red line in the sand to Venezuela
And state, cross the line and one will be required to back it up,
just saying like.
More disgusting behaviour from the fool Maduro. Meanwhile Venezuela is facing a famine.
Jul 21st, 2015 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sickening beyond belief.
A useful link I believe
Jul 23rd, 2015 - 01:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0CHALLENGES TO THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF GUYANA: A LEGAL ANALYSIS Thomas W. Donovan*
http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1208&context=gjicl
via Janes.
Jul 23rd, 2015 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Venezuelan Navy is significantly expanding its amphibious transport capabilities and is now expected to receive two more Damen Stan Lander 5612 roll-on/roll-off landing vessels in August, according to local reports.
These two vessels were launched from the Damen Song Cam shipyard in Vietnam in mid-July and are part of a follow-on order for eight, valued at EUR94 million (USD102.1 million) and signed in February 2014. Damen's Song Cam shipyards will build another two landing vessels and it is expected that DAMEX - a joint Cuban-Dutch shipyard in Santiago, Cuba - will build the remaining four on order.
Those vessels will join four of the same class delivered between April 2012 and December 2014 by DAMEX.
Something weird is going on with Venezuela.
They're still increasing the size and capability of their military while they're in the midst of an economic meltdown? Why?
Regardless, they're arming up to fight someone....I just don't know who
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