Guyana announced Thursday that it had announced the International Court of Justice (ICJ) an urgent request to stop adjacent Venezuela from holding fake elections for the governor of “Guayana Esekiva.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana press release We are notified of the request for provisional measures issued by the ICJ in light of future elections in Venezuela. For more than 120 years, Venezuela and Guyana have maintained territorial disputes over Essequibo, a resource-rich 61,600 square miles of territory currently under Guyana control and representing about two-thirds of the entire territory. Guyana argued that Venezuela's election plans violated an ICJ court order.
The dispute had yet to reach a final and decisive ruling in international organizations, and remained relatively dormant throughout the 1900s until the last decade. Hostile It called for Essequibo to be annexed, depending on the threat to Guyana and neighboring countries signing offshore oil drill agreements with American company Exxonmobil in the contested region.
On Wednesday, Maduro repeated his threat I insisted He will take “all necessary measures” to stop ExxonMobil's operations in the contested areas.
Justifying his actions regarding fake “consequences” in December 2023 ReferendumThe Maduro administration passed the law March 2024 It is said to occupy the entire 61,600 square miles of territory contested to formally “create” the 24th Venezuelan state known as “Guayana Esekiva.”
At the time, Maduro and his socialist lawmakers appointed Alexis Rodriguez Cabello until the election took place. Rodriguez Cabello is the brother of Venezuela's Home Minister and actively postponed drug lord Diosdado Cabello. I wanted it by US officials regarding multiple narcoterrorist accusations.
Venezuelan socialists are scheduled to hold fake regional elections on May 25th to elect 23 states in Venezuela, the new “Guayana Jesekiva” states and new governors of their respective local councils. That's how fake elections were Originally It is scheduled to be held on April 27th, but at the time Rescheduling May 25th.
Elvis Amoroso, director of the Maduro Royal National Election Centre (CNE), argued that the new May date has “intention to promote and promote the participation of various stakeholders in society.”
Guyana's Foreign Ministry accused Venezuela of “influencing the Guyana population and Guyana's sovereignty over its territory, and describing Venezuela and his annexation plan as violating the ICJ. Arbitration Published in December 2023, Venezuela calls for refraining from taking action to change the situation in Essequibo.
“Guyana is considering a plan for Venezuela to hold elections on “territories of conflict.” The Guyana Foreign Ministry said. Guyana's current request calls for a confirmation of this by the court and an explicit directive to affect this territory, which is made up of Guyana nationals, or its population, or its population.
“Guyana has also requested the court to convene a hearing on request. Interim measures that may be shown to be issued by the court may be in effect Before serious and irreparable bias against Guyana's rights arises,” the statement concluded.
In light of the Maduro threat and the hostile reignition of more than 120 years of territorial disputes, Guyana has issued a formal request to the ICJ. court Domination In April 2023, it noted that it has jurisdiction over the Essequibo dispute, but that the final ruling was “a few years away” when it was issued. Maduro repeatedly I insisted Neither he nor his socialist regime recognizes the ICJ's ruling on this issue.
The ongoing territorial dispute has long preceded the arrival of Guyana as a dominant Venezuelan socialist regime and the existence of Guyana as an independent state. Since Venezuela gained independence from Spain in 1811, it has historically argued that Essequibo is part of the border.
The 1899 arbitration process held in Paris gave Guyana, then known as the British Guiana, control of the disputed territory. Venezuela has maintained throughout history that the 1899 arbitration in Paris was fraudulent. Decades later, in 1966, Venezuela and the UK agreement A few weeks before Geneva, Guyana was independent of British rule and gave Guyana control over Essequibo until a permanent solution to the conflict was discovered.
The latest fraudulent election event in Venezuela since July 28, 2024, and the latest election fraud event in Venezuela since July 28, 2024, shows that Maduro is a presidential election claiming that he “won” despite the continued refusal of local election authorities to release voter data claiming “winning.”
Christian K. Calzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
