We’re rightfully livid that Mad Maduro had the chutzpah to announce he’s planning to appoint a Governor of ESSEQUIBO!! But then the madman has consistently insisted that Essequibo is theirs; and even after Pressie and he had smoked a peace pipe arranged by Ralphie Gonzalves at Argyle, he passed legislation “confirming” his ownership!!
In fact, the Argyle meeting had been convened just after he’d raised our temperature by holding a referendum to authorize him to annex Essequibo!! And the Argyle Agreement made no mention of Mad Maduro rescinding the referendum, did it??
So Mad Maduro’s merely continuing to do what he’s been doing even before Exxon struck oil offshore our Atlantic Coast in May 2015 – challenging our sovereignty over Essequibo in whichever way that presents itself to him. Let’s remember he assumed power in March 2013 after his mentor Chavez croaked, and by October of the same year, he had his navy seize and chase away that Anadarko ship surveying for oil off Essequibo!! We can imagine his rage when Exxon struck oil!!
So, do we have to count how Mad Maduro has been pursuing his annexation?? Your Eyewitness thinks not. Old people does say, “You doan need a firestick to see what you can see in broad daylight!!” The other excuse used to “explain” Mad Maduro’s aggression against us is that because he’s destroyed his country’s economy and seven million Venezuelans have fled – he’s trying to placate the restive ones remaining!! Well, whoopidy do!! What difference does it make to us as to why we’re facing his unremitting hostility??
We Guyanese should accept that we’ll never know peace while Mad Maduro’s around. Now, this doesn’t mean that other Venezuelan leaders don’t also believe Essequibo is theirs, but it’s very unlikely that any other leader would be so IRRATIONAL in wanting to be a world leader when all he was when he was plucked out of oblivion by Chavez was a BUS DRIVER for the Caracas Metro system!! There’s nothing else for him to do if he loses his job – unlike, say, his rival Maria Machado, who’s an industrial engineer!! So, he would do whatever it takes to cling on to power; and we gotta do whatever it takes to “un-cling” him!!
But depending on the “international” system to remove him – as we seem to be doing – is tantamount to pi55ing into the wind; it’ll just blow back at you!! Several commentators have suggested we use some of our oil revenues to create a military base in OUR Essequibo – and let it be known we’ll let the Yanks use it as they see fit.
Maybe they’ll want to take over Venezuela after they finish with Mexico!!
…of Mad Maduro’s gambit
Well, today’s the day – the day Mad Maduro places the Venezuelan crown on his head for another six years!! You gotta hand it to the Madman – there’s a method to his madness! Not only did he thumb his nose at little ole us after Argyle, he did the same to the big Biden Yanks with whom – through their surrogates – he’d signed the Barbados Agreement to hold free and fair elections!! The ink hadn’t even dried on that document when he banned his most powerful opposition leader – the aforementioned Machado – who’d been backed by the US N.E.D.! Without even a rap on his fingers!!
The reason, of course, is Biden wanted to have his cake and eat it too. He talked up democracy in the region, but he also wanted the heavy crude from Venezuela to be shipped into American refineries to mix with his light shale oil to produce diesel, so that America wouldn’t have a cold winter!!
Let’s see what Trump’s gonna do!!
…of courting China
Indentured labourers were shipped into Guyana to replace the freed Africans in the following order – Portuguese/Madeirans, Indians, and finally Chinese. Your Eyewitness noticed a staging of Chinese Arrival at the NCC.
Just because Portugal’s poorest in Europe??
