Dealing with…Mad Maduro’s bullyism

One of the (Opposition) dailies ran an interview they did with Mad Maduro’s ambassador passing himself off as the “Venezuelan Ambassador”!! Since Mad Maduro ostentatiously and flagrantly rigged the last two elections and hounded the rightful winners, he can’t possibly be the legal president of Venezuela!! He’s an imposter and so is his “ambassador”!! Anyhow, the fella cried a river of tears about how the big, bad US President Trump – legally elected, thank you! – was out to overthrow his boss!! Who, he claimed, was “the legitimate government … in order to install a puppet regime and turn our country, Venezuela, into a colony.”
Well, boo hoo!! Can you imagine the arrant posturising and hypocrisy?? He ain’t gonna get ANY sympathy from these quarters – the quarters where all right-minded Guyanese should be sitting!! This fella represents a regime that has just jam-packed Ankoko Island in the Cuyuni River border – which they control after violently seizing our half back in 1966!! – with troops and military hardware after building an airstrip!! And HE complains about US wanting regime change??!! What the heck are those Venezuelan troops poised to do if not seize the rest of OUR Essequibo which Mad Maduro’s puppet legislature has purported to ANNEX??
He claims that America is a “bully” to’ve positioned “fighter planes, missile destroyers, missile cruisers, assault troops, assets used in special operations and covert missions, and even a submarine with nuclear power” off Venezuela. He also claimed the US has some “10,000 troops” in the flotilla. But he forgot to mention that back in Dec 2023 in addition to the deployment of the thousands of troops to Ankoko, hadn’t Mad Maduro also deployed his own flotilla – and 5600 troops – against us?? Wasn’t that an even more overwhelming buildup against us – whose GDF has just 4500 troops?? Who’s the bully??
Venezuela’s army is quite capable of defending itself against the US: “With a force of some 150,000 regular combatants and 430,000 reservists, the FANB is noted for its Air Force, one of the best equipped in the region with 79 units in total, whose line-up includes 24 Russian Sukhoi fighters and 16 US-made F-16s in addition to 23 Chinese-made Hongdu K-V units and 10 Embraer Tucano aircraft. The national defence system has a sophisticated M1-Tor anti-aircraft missile system; 53 attack helicopters; 250 combat vehicles, and about 180 tanks, some of which are currently undergoing refitting and maintenance. The army has an inventory that includes 100,000 AK-Kalashnikov assault rifles that are already manufactured in the country.”
Rather than whining, shouldn’t Mad Maduro man up and face the US forces – which should be landing any day now??
He should brush up on Panama’s Noriega who faced the music in the US!!

…(Venez) invasion
During the Cold War, the Americans had a question for anyone trying to enter their country: “Are you now, or ever been a member of a communist party”. The reason, of course, is they didn’t want to allow Fifth Columnists into their country – who could be activated some time down the road to subvert the country from within!!
This should be the retort to those who say we should allow any and all Venezuelan “refugees” because they allowed so many Guyanese to enter their country when the shoe was on the other foot. But the two situations aren’t equivalent, are they?? Unlike Venezuela, we’ve never claimed two-thirds of their territory and could later exploit the sentiments of the “refugees” to call upon their “mother country” to rescue them from persecution or whatever!! Isn’t this why, say, Turkey invaded Cyprus and partitioned it into Greek and Turkish enclaves??
All non-Guyanese-origin persons from Venezuela must be categorised as “refugees” – with the caveat they gotta return when Maduro’s ousted!!

…our apex court
Many who shout “Caricom!! Caricom!!” haven’t accepted the CCJ as their apex court. They accept the colonial Privy Council!! We’ve been there from the beginning – and it’s quite apt that Guyanese Bulkan is now on the CCJ!!