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Maduro ignores ruling from UN court in new attempt to take over Guyana´s Esequibo region
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in a statement underscored its historical position to not recognize the jurisdiction of the UN International Court of Justice 
President of Guyana Ali accused Venezuela of violating an earlier order by planning to hold elections May 25 for a governor and other officials to administer Esequibo region. The government of Venezuela aggressively rejected a ruling from the UN International Court of Justice ordering Caracas to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee the resource-rich disputed region of Esequibo in neighboring Guyana.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in a statement underscored its historical position to not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and asserted that international law does not allow the body to “interfere” or “attempt to prohibit” a sovereign election.
The statement follows a day after the International Court issued the ruling at the request of Guyana, which accused Venezuela of violating an earlier order by planning to hold elections May 25 for a governor and other officials to administer Esequibo region.
Essequibo “Is an inalienable part of the Venezuelan territory and a legacy of our liberators,” according to the statement. “Its defense is a historical, constitutional, and a moral mandate that unites the entire Bolivarian Homeland. No international pressure, judicial blackmail, or foreign tribunal will make us back down from this conviction.”
The area under dispute represents two-thirds of Guyana and is rich in gold, diamonds, timber and other natural resources. It also is located close to massive offshore oil deposits, with current production averaging some 650,000 barrels per day. ExxonMobil and Chinese associates operate the impressive oil resources. Because of the oil production Guyana has one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
Brazil and Caribbean states in several summits have called for dialogue and tried to refrain from any use of force. US, UK and Canada have said they are prepared to defend the small former British colony with a population of 800,000, compared to the 30 million in Venezuela (plus the seven million that fled the country because of Maduro’s dictatorship)
Maduro and his cronies resemble the Esequibo dispute with that of the Falkland Islands and Argentina’s sovereignty claims.
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Read all comments“Maduro and his cronies resemble the Esequibo dispute with that of the Falkland Island's and Argentina's sovereignty claims”
Posted 11 hours ago 0And look what happened there!
However, play the whole scenario out and we might see a regime change in Venezuela.
Unfortunately, lives will be lost.
“Maduro and his cronies resemble the Esequibo dispute with that of the Falkland Islands and Argentina’s sovereignty claims.”
Posted 10 hours ago 0”However, half a century later, the publication of an alleged political deal between Russia and Britain led Venezuela to reassert its claims. In 1949, the US jurist Otto Schoenrich gave the Venezuelan government the Memorandum of Severo Mallet-Prevost (Official Secretary of the U.S./Venezuela delegation in the Tribunal of Arbitration), written in 1944 to be published only after Mallet-Prevost's death. That reopened the issues, with Mallet-Prevost surmising a political deal between Russia and Britain from the subsequent private behaviour of the judges.”
https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_of_1895
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