New York Times: In Guyana, a Land Dispute With Venezuela Escalates Over Oil
BARTICA, Guyana — At a little tin-roofed beer joint on the west bank of the Essequibo River, Rawle Huggins relaxed on a wooden bench and considered his tiny country’s escalating border spat with its much bigger neighbor, Venezuela.
“Here is Guyana,” said Mr. Huggins, a sometime gold miner, referring to the land beneath him and everything around it. “I don’t live in Venezuela. I live in Guyana. They live,” he added, gesturing beyond the jungle that fringes the town, “over there.”
Bartica (pronounced BAR-ti-ca), a two-and-a-half-hour journey by car and boat from Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, is the jumping-off point for what the Guyanese call “the interior,” a sparsely populated region of forest and savanna that holds indigenous villages, mining camps and deposits of gold, diamonds, bauxite and other minerals.
WNU Editor: The mess in Venezuela is such that the governing party of Maduro needs a diversion. A conflict with Guyana could be that diversion.
1 comment:
I say give it to Venezuela.
They can use their expertise
to extract, refine, and ship
the oil at a higher cost than
the selling price. The money
generated can then be used
to import goods that will
be sold below cost to the
unemployed that don't have
any money anyway.
Socialism is so much fun.
ofs
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