👀💥The border between 🇻🇪 Venezuela and 🇬🇾 Guyana is extremely tense. The narco-regime of Nicolás Maduro is threatening with an invasion. At VisualPolitik, we are finalizing a video in which we will tell you all the details of the current crisis. For now, we wanted to bring back this piece where we explain why Guyana is so coveted. You can watch the full video here:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oL2Ji7BkmbbGoac.htmlsi=FlE8yj5ygL0Pf19G

This referendum is about as lawful as me asking my family if I can have parts of the house of my neighbour.

Guyana should follow and create a sovereign wealth fund like the Norwegians did with their North Sea petroleum revenues. Would even suggest to the Guyana government to hire Norwegian sovereign wealth managers to co-manage their funds for the starter. Guyanese should also look to Singapore as a good governance and capital investment model for its future, spending sensibly on some basic good infrastructure and growing a service-oriented economy with its small population. It should hitch a ride with the US for financial and defense stability, given the history of patchy democracy that beset the South American regions.

Venezuela has huge oil reserves though. This is a gold mine robbing another gold mine.

Guyana, even though not a wealthy country, earned a reputation as one of the few relatively peaceful countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The country has been neutral ever since independence and has never gone to war or joined any military alliance, hence you see why Guyana has never joined the US in Iraq or Afghanistan, not even participating in sanctions against Russia. Its official name, "Co-operative Republic", reflects the desires of Guyana. Hence, facing a more hostile, expansionist Venezuela that is armed by Russia is deeply worrying for Guyana. Guyana has a very small army and, unlike Ukraine, it is never trained for war because Guyana is not a war-minded country - it is mostly looking for peace. Still, Guyana can rally necessary allies, such as the West, other Latin American countries, and especially, India and the Muslim world; the former is due to strong India tie (nearly half of Guyanese population are Indians), and the latter is due to the current Guyanese President being a Sunni Muslim, which is likely to galvanise Muslim world's support due to Guyana's largely peaceful nature. Guyana should use these advantages to deter Venezuela.

Guyana's situation has attracted great interests in India here. Guyana is deeply close to India more than any country else (perhaps only Suriname rivalled it), because over 30-40% of Guyanese populations are Indians, plus Guyana has many Indian festivals officially recognised by the government. Currently the President and Vice President of Guyana are both Indians (Irfaan Ali and Bharrat Jagdeo), the Vice President's name even resonated more to India because his first name, "Bharrat", means "India" in Sanskrit. Moreover, Guyana has been portrayed largely positive in India, because Guyana is, since independence, a neutral state and has no interest in going to war or join any military alliance. To see a Putinist-style expansionist regime of Hispanic ancestry that already discriminated Indians to wage war against a country so close to India is shocking, and I heard even Indo-Guyanese students studying in India has urged Indian government to use all diplomatic channels to prevent Venezuela from launching a full-scale invasion of Guyana. However, the decision could not be done without the tacit approval from the Russians, since Putin and Maduro are allies. But by going as far as tacitly backing Venezuela's military buildup, Putin shows he is not a friend to any Indian or India, and that India is only used as a tool for Russian imperialists to propagate their "friendship" that, unfortunately, no longer exists due to recent disputes over currency paying and Russia's tacit support for China against India. Anyway, if this happens, it may also alter Indo-Russian relations forever. India doesn't have capacity to aid Guyana at all, but since Venezuela is a clear ally of Moscow, a Venezuelan invasion of Guyana will be seen by Indians as an evidence that Russia will never honour India as an ally and that Russia will advance their agenda even if that means insulting India to the face. And by targeting Guyana, a country with such a deep Indian connection and has never joined any alliance or war, may result in growing hatred on Russia given Guyana's good reputation in the eyes of many Indians.

I was in the poor Guyana and I was happy af tbh

He complaining about centuries old colonialism but: 1) has European blood 2) he's a dictator

These shorter 6min videos are much better. Easier and quicker to follow than the long 15min or 30min videos.

I don't think Venezuela will invade because if things go south, that would be the end of the regime, that's too much of a risk for them! BTW, with already the world's largest oil reserves, their oil production has been performing poorly for decades. It is more of a stunt to boost their image locally, as "the only government that stood up for what's ours, against imperialism". Now, as far as Guayana, don't forget to factor in corruption! Let's hope this isn't yet anther example of the oil curse, where in spite of enormous riches flowing in and an initial 5-10 year growth, things are worse off with oil than without, 20 years on.

This is not the first time Venezuela is claiming, what's not their own.

If Venezuela really did invade Guyana for real, good luck for them invading Guyana through Brazilian State of Roraima without Brazil's repercussion. There's no border crossing road connection between Venezuela and Guyana due to Amazon's fortification, making Venezuela and Guyana virtually separated, and the only real connection to Guyana is through Brazil's Roraima. Venezuela is basically needs to violate Brazil's sovereign territory just to occupy Guyana.

Good video - praying for Guyana

they should do a trust similar to that of Norway. have a constant stream of money for your country's future growth (education, infrastructure, medical, natural disasters...even getting invaded...)

The Visual Politik original version talked more about the Venezuelan and Guyana history and the reasons why Maduró regime took that decision. Can we have it in English as well?

Fresh cut. Looks good 👍

it is utterly ironic that he is blaming colonialism for the eventual borders of these nations, when these nations didn't even EXIST before / without colonialism. before, they were just various groups of indigenous people living through out. the borders were an arbitrary way for different Euro nations to keep their territoires separate. it doesn't matter how it was re-divided over a 100 years ago. now these are two separate nations. and this psychopath doesn't get to redraw them just because he's thirsty for NR

Spend it on its people to develop the country and create opportunities.

The first thing to do is to invest in their military. They can't depend on the US to defend it from Venezuela.

other countries will stand with guyana

4:39 A wrong illustration. That illustration's meaning according to Google Translate is like this : "We are Ukraine's most fragile neighbor, we are the country most affected by it and we are the country that has the fewest resources to deal with the situation and the consequences of the war." NICU POPESCU, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF MOLDOVA.

Oil thieves in action. Testing to see if they can get away with it.

why is Ali so convinced that Norway's assessment is impartial?

Venezuela should focus on rebuilding its economy rather than causing issues with the Essequibo. If the claim to the Essequibo is based on historical ties to Gran Colombia, then, by that reasoning, Puerto Rico could be linked to Spain, and Mexico might consider returning land to indigenous groups like the Tarahumaras, Huicholes, Mazahuas, Otomiés, Purépechas, Mexicas, Nahuas, and Yaquis.

At 4:41 you gave a quote from Moldavian foreign minister with nothing to do with the subject discussed.

They should copy Norway to the letter, something the UK should have done.

Guyana should work out some kind of defense deal with the US as soon as possible. American companies are already doing the majority of their oil management. They have to make sure Venezuela doesn't attack to distract from its failing economy and to do Putin (and possibly China) a favor. I hope it gets support from Argentina's Milei.

You didn’t cover in greater detail the Venezuelan threat !

China pulled out when they realized Guyana would be able to finance the project without owing the Chinese. This is great opportunity for a Western company.

I wouldn't worry too much about the situation, I don't think the US would ever allow one South American Nation to bully another.

Question: Has anyone in Venezuela ever read the story of David and Bathsheba? The story told by the prophet Nathan about one wealthy sheep herder stealing the poor neighbor's only wee lamb?

someone messed up the graphs, they put the spanish (and wrong ones) @5:16 for example

Why such the short episodes lately

Someone call Mattias Nelson

Little "snafu" at 4:40... "We are the most fragile neighbor of Ukraine, we are the country most affected by it and we are the country that has fewer resources to face the situation and the consequences of the war." --Google translate.

Irfan Ali shouldn't give oil concessions in disputed territory

the caribbean is not weak

Venezuela one of biggest oil owner in the world. So ooo glut

I am afraid there is nothing and no way to 'invade'. By sea? The closest Venezuela is geographically seems to be the very quiet town of Tumeremo on the main highway between Guayana City and Boa Vista. Or the Rio Cuyuni? If one knows anything about that environment, its probably nothing is permanent, except river travel. Or a small runway.

To give you guys an idea of how much oil this is. It's the size of florida.

Invest the funds into infrastructure and maintenance.

Proof you can not stop selfishness

Guyana WILL prevail!

Yo, wrong text on 5:15 timeline. It is nothing to do with what you are telling about it is Moldova minister talking about war in Ukraine.

Hey, who needs drinkable water or breathable air?

what the heck is going at 4:38? Spanish text has nothing to do with what's being said... (and the same at 5:15...)

Shoddy work with the visuals guys 😢

As long as the ppl get some of the money that’s all that matters

They should use a substantial part of the oil revenues to create their own Government Pension Fund Global …. Like Norway 🇳🇴 did. Unfortunately the chances for something like that happening are rather negligible 😢 The money stock could then be used for state institutions and systems responsible for: - Education - Pensions - Healthcare

What kind of business would be best to set up there at this moment? Or jobs? I want to leave Europe.

If he invade Guyana, his reign is done.

the banners says totally different in spanish seems you got confused when making the video.

It is a brief and interesting video; however, it does not deliver a solid answer to the question in the title.

S-E-Keebo is how you say Essequibo & Guyana s NOT apart of Latin America

Imagine having a young president

It will go one of twoways. Either they put in place anti - corruption measures and account for the money or it will go into a true blackhole of someones pocket. The optimist in me hopes it can it least be used to uplift the populace and the sinic in me thinks it will go into someones back pocket

Why in 4:38 and 5:13 you show Minister of foreign affairs of Moldavia ... Nicu POPESCU !!!

Why are there 2 quotes in Spanish from a Moldovan government official in this video?

My favorite thing about this war is just how people are finding a way to defend invading your neighbor because of colonial borders and oil because they're an anti-West regime doing it. At least America and Brazil likely wouldn't let Venezuela do anything about the border since it's their back yard.

Hi, venezuelan here! This border dispute dates from 1800s, from the moment our country gained independence, our governments questioned the british invasion of the territory, since the natural border with the british colonies (formerly dutch) was on the Essequibo river. Britain used their influence as the gobal power during the XIX century to dismiss venezuelan claims until by end of the century Venezuela managed to get US involved after a strong lobby to sit Britain at the negotiation table. But things didn't go smooth as Venezuela was coerced to be represented by American lawyers (from US supreme court) on the arbitration at Paris. Britain had two lawyers of their choice, and the "non-biased one" happened to be a Russian diplomat. (Don't forget russia was still ruled by the Czars that were linked with British crown). After the decision was made public, whre Venezuela was stripped of 159k km2. The fundaments behind this reasoning were never made public (still unknow), Britain was given a large portion of territory they didn't even request from start. In short, it was rigged. During those years on 1902, Venezuelan commertial docks were put under a naval blockade by european imperial powers (Germany, Britain and Italy) to force negotiations on payments of foreign debts. So you can tell, Venezuela was in a extremly weak diplomatic position at time. It changed on the 50s. British supremacy was collapsing, UN allowed smaller countries to raise their voice and Venezuela went through a hard diplomatic work to make other countries recognize the unsatisfied border controversy with Britain, until we signed 1966 Geneva agreement in order to find a diplomatic solution for this issue. Britain granted Guyana their independence and the newly formed country wasn't interested in solving that dispute. No, the problem right now it's not about "oil". It's about Guyana pushing for ICJ ruling, even tho Venezuela has dismissed ICJ as an appropiate way to solve this dispute. This has forced Maduro (who i truly despise), to take actions to strenghten venezuelan claim on that territory. Venezuela has NEVER recognized ICJ's jurisdiction (there are many other countries that don't recognize it either, like USA). Any decision taken by ICJ won't have any real effects. I don't know where this is going, i don't want a war... But the best would be a negotiated solution.

The best way for Guyana is to merge into the United States to guarantee its security and prosperity.

Well.. As in the words of King Leonidas of Sparta inscribed on his statue at Themopylae to this very day... "Come and take them!"

What is going on in your video? There are messages in Spanish (I'm in the spanish world) from the government of Moldova baked into the videos. 4:39 amd 5:15 What is going on?

Improve living standards and increase Pensions.

I live in Guyana what money you talking about our people are living in poverty

With the 'Plomo', they want to get the 'Plata.'

The Guyanese president, Irfaan Ali, must be willing to negotiate the division of the Essequibo territory with the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, to resolve the historic border dispute between both countries in a friendly, practical and satisfactory manner as required by the 1966 Geneva agreement.

The historical problem with oil and natural gas revenues in undeveloped countries is that it never benefits the masses at the bottom of society. I would say that the money should go into medical care, hospitals, electric power, sanitation, and some form of mass transit to help mold the country into a cohesive and united unit. As the country is mostly jungle; purhaps mass transit should concentrate on river transportation with less resources spent on roads and buses. Lastly, money should be invested into other countries' stock markets or realistate markets to unsure future income that is set aside for its residents when the oil runs out. If Venezula still insists on annexing them then unfortunately some of this money will have to go into a military. Perhaps they should look to Franch, India, and the USA for protection. To revive especially the rest of their economy perhaps they should look to foreign investment with the foreign investors held to less than a 50% stake and also laws to insure that no one country dominates their economy. Hey, when your small even money from China and Russia helps so long as they don't dominate your politics, resources, and economy. For that matter you wold not want USA companies dominating in these areas too.

People of Suriname want the New River Triangle aka tigri gebied back also!

Hi, i ser this channel because visualpolitik in spanish no offer no offer the same video in spanish

Stolen land is stolen land no matter how one you've held it, if you can't defend it tough luck.

Why Venezuela Doesn’t invade Guyana ????

Venezuela?😂 They eat grass for supper and yet have aspirations for greatness? Lawl socialism at its best 😂

What should they do with the oil money… pay for a large mercenary army to protect them!

@2:57 Dams are and never have been good for the environment! 😂

180 billion, 20 years, 9 billion, 800 thousand people, 9 million, 800 people, 90 thousand 8 people, about a 12000 boost per person, each person over the 20 year period per person. Monaco, the long term tax haven of wealthy Europeans fleeing high taxs in their countries for 6 decafes it will never be. Nor will it be Norway. But it could, if spent well, tranaform the country into a diversified upper income to advanced economy. They should focus on their advantages and process high quality tropical goods fir sale into welathuer countries and develop their mineral sector further.

No way Gringo, it’s mine it’s always been that way till man emerged from monkeys.

Imagine someone forcing you to sign over your home at gun point, nobody would recognise that transaction as you signed it over under duress. The British Empire is the man with the gun with an affinity for South American waterfront real estate. But in this regard everyone recognises the change in ownership? A great disregard you made in this video is ignoring the deep racial divides in Guyana with even the UN calling out the systemic segregation in the country. It is not an even demographic, the true natives only make up ~10%, the country is dominated by the East Indians (from actual India) 40% and the second largest group is African 29%, with a further mixed being 20%. It is too common for people to give their support based on the Pantone sympathy chart, the native population is having their resources stolen and nobody does anything about it as it would go against the current narrative in regards to colonialism. The land is South American and the resources should go to its rightful people and not the vestiges of British colonialism.

So the european is trying to claim the victim now thats rich ! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

5:14 there is memo in Spanish about Ukraine told by official from Moldova that has no relevance to Gyana.Don't undermine your viewers intelegence.

Bolivian dictator Evo Morales, a close friend of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, used to seek a similar referendum demanding the reconquest of Littoral area from us. The only thing that denied Bolivia from doing so is because Bolivia was so poor (and still is), while Chile is far wealthier, more armed and better prepared for war like that. Don't think Maduro will be more insane than Morales.

Guyana is not an Indo-Guyanese country. Stop saying that.

In case ofba war I won't to no if these young guys in Venezuela army will fight for this dictator for land what is not his own plenty of them beautiful wife will turn widow some other young man will have to take care of the family

Reason why N° 1 map by artist Schomburgk differs so much from N° 2 , 3, 4 and 5 and they are all different from each other: 👃🍃 Fix the leftover mess in an honourable way, simple, just dont make it worse because of non stop greed 🤦‍♂️. Once that legal historical bs from 200 years ago is solved the correct way, we all can carry on as good neighbours. The out of place guyanese are fooling themselves thinking it's their territory🤦‍♂️ . Do something right at least once during your whole wicked history, its incredible 🙄🤦‍♂️. Return 🇸🇷Tigri🇸🇷 to Surinam too, it has been shameless land thievery by selfentitled unfixable broken compass greedy pirates for a very long time 🤢🤮🤦‍♂️

Venezuela will not invade, if well the claim of Venezuela on the Essequibo has 200 years as it was part of the Spanish territories and not British however Venezuela had a dispute with GB over the area since their independence , there were attempts to return the territory and some sort of compromise from GB t to Venezuela however by 1966 time of the independence of Guyana this was not settle and GB stated that Venezuela and Guyana should settle this now since than there has been a dispute among both countries and there is a case at the IJC. On one hand Venezuela has a claim with multiple international mediation for the last 200 years on their claim to the territory. On the other hand Guyana since their independence has claimed the territory as an indivisible part of their soverign territory. Regarding the war drums is all fake news, Brasil already gather the two presidents and invited them to dialogue and avoid any kind of unilateral action in the area. Should Venezuela ignore it Brasil will intervene and force Venezuela troops out of the Essequibo by force. all the roads in Guyana are oriented to the Brazilian border and there is not a single road moving east west connecting Guyana with Venezuela, Maduro is now aware Brazilian troops have moved to the border to ensure no unilateral action happens and will not allow a military action against Guyana. the reason is simple extra continental powers have their eyes in the resources of the amazon so Brazil will not allow military adventures in their borders. Finally Brazil has been a traditional ally, partner and protector of Guyana with no harsh policies as installing bases or other attempts against the sovereignty of Guyana and will not back down. After the meeting between Maduro and Ifaan Ali both countries had committed to search peaceful solutions to the controversy, there will be no War, Brazil already warn Venezuela that should they so something against the peace of the region they will be on the need to show them how many sticks are necessary to build a canoe. France and the USA can back down someone else is the sheriff down there.

Latin Saddam Hussein

!La Guayana Esequiba es de VENEZUELA carajo!

Lets end this peacefully and make a referendum in the essequibo let the people there decide!!!

I love the presenter. He is such a sweet boy

Build a militarily

Because Venezuela sees the evil actions can be unpunished. Example of russian invasion to Ukraine and hamas invasion to Israel. West is super weak and all he can do is express deeply concerns.

Lo que pasa es que ese territorio históricamente es 100% venezolano, el problema es que el dinero obtenido por todo el petróleo que hay en esa zona solo haría que la dictadura de Maduro se fortalezca, y qué el régimen represente una mayor amenaza para la región de lo que es ahora

NOT your Country.

Guyana can't defend itself against Venezuela. And, if no one is willing to come help Guyana,.....then why would Venezuela need to worry? Seems like an easy decision for Venezuela.

Here we go again... Ukraine 2.0. 🙄

Get off russian oil

Possibly they will waste the money in the worst possible way until the oil runs dry and they get back to being a sugar plantation that doesn't even is good at it (while those who stole the money will live abroad, somewhere). Something like Equatorial Guinea in Africa (whose reserves is said to last 15 years more at most).

Two words: Vladimir Putin!

Honestly , I think as of today the legal certainty is nonexistent due to the tenuous situation of the Essequibo . I think if Venezuela does invade there’s little than the Guyanese can do. I find it doubtful that the US or the European Union would step in and with time Venezuela senses I believe that the international community of not expressly at least tacitly would accept their invasion . The security council will not vote condemn Venezuela since most likely Russia would vetoed. It is quite suspect that the Chinese oil company stepped out of the project .

You rightly have to make videos for a living, but just do it about embezzlement which is always the same lies.