Well, it had to happen, sooner or later. Mad Maduro’s been trash-talking us for over a decade, since he had the spunks to seize that American Anadarko oil survey ship back in 2013. It doesn’t matter which category of Venezuelan they are: rich, poor, black, Spanish, mestizo, communist, capitalist, LGBTQ, or whatever; since he’s feeding off a century of their being indoctrinated in schools that Essequibo was stolen from them by the British for the Guyanese, at the minimum, they’d be inclined to be leery of Guyanese!!
And let’s be honest about this: it includes all those Venezuelans who aren’t of Guyanese heritage, who’ve come as refugees. Sure, they might be grateful for the help they’re getting; sure, they might be pissed at Mad Maduro for destroying their country and livelihood; but, somewhere in the backs of their minds, there is a feeling of being wronged by us. It’s like how American Blacks think of American Whites: looong before Trump and his crew, they were conditioned to see them differently; and NOT positively differently!!
And this brings us to Venezuelans shooting our soldiers while they were minding Guyana’s business in the Cuyuni river near Eteringbang. The Cuyuni is the border between Venezuela and Guyana at that point, so this means that, halfway from the middle (the thalweg) to the western shore is ours. But it’s clear that, since in their minds the entire Essequibo is theirs – not just our half of Ankoko Island they seized in 1966 – they believe the entire Cuyuni is theirs to do as they please!! Hence our soldiers being shot at!!
We heard that it was two boatloads of Venezuelan “Sindicatos” who did the shooting – and then calmly went back to their side of the river. It would appear that, evidently, our soldiers weren’t only “outmanned”, but outgunned, because our men in green fatigues didn’t go after them in hot pursuit, and they calmly stared them down!!
So, who’re these Sindicatos? Simply put, these are so-called “unions”, but are actually armed gangs created with the connivance of the Chavista government to exploit mining opportunities in huge areas of their “interior” – in an Arc of the Orinoco, which just happens to abut our Essequibo. These areas are dubbed “economic zones”!!
These gangs control all sorts of hustles and illegal mining – especially gold, that’s smuggled out, including through Guyana. They also keep the populace loyal to the government – now under Mad Maduro – by acting as enforcers who “help” folks to vote during elections!! So, when we talk about “Sindicatos”, we’re talking about arms of Mad Maduro’s government as much if we’re talking about the army.
So, dear readers, we hope our Government doesn’t dismiss this attack as some hotheads just letting off steam. This is war!!
…excess gas
There’s a lot of gas being released nowadays, and your Eyewitness ain’t talking about the hot air coming out of the back-and-forting about a55-kissing and bambsie-licking!! He’s talking about the NATURAL gas that’s “associated” with the oil, which is making us the fastest growing economy in the world. Your Eyewitness has already discussed what is associated with the new Hammerhead field that’s about to be developed: a TRILLION cubic metres (cum) of gas. There was the announcement that the Government wanted to “monetize” the gas – obviously by selling it was the expectation?
Well, he just saw an announcement that Exxon and its partners are gonna be building a pipeline to connect the Hammerhead gas-output to the Lisa pipeline that’s taking its gas to the GtE facility at Wales for power generation etc. All well, as far as we can tell, we’re not gonna be using all of that trillion cum of gas – much less the 17 trillion cum that we have overall??
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) anyone??
…crassness
The fella who precipitated outrage by calling African Guyanese who support the PPP “compulsive anal lickers” has retorted that Walter Rodney also lapsed into the vernacular when describing Burnham.
Please!! Rodney used wit, not profanity!!
