June 10, 2025
So the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela has changed their regional opponent from Guyana to now Venezuela. How apt is it to showcase the instability and increasing despotic behaviour of the Maduro regime. If the US was not where it was, they would have attacked both countries by now.
Both of Venezuela’s neighbours are oil producing countries and both have boundary issues with it. The Guyana border issue goes back as far as 1899 and the boundary commission report of the British-Venezuelan mixed boundary commission and of recent vintage over the Essequibo region and Guyana’s oil find on their side of that river.
The Trinidadian boundary issue goes back to 1942 and the Gulf of Paria Treaty and its implications for the maritime boundary.
These matters are seen as resolved and only Venezuela is trying to renegotiate the respective agreements. Now they seem prone to provocations and violence, which is quite unfortunate now.
The Maduro regime needs to chill out.