Georgetown (Guyana):
Top US Diplomat Marco Rubio has published a strict warning against Venezuela on Thursday when it escalates his claims against the new oil-rich Guyana, who waves the power of the US Army to protect the small South American nation.
Venezuela, whose left-wing leader Nicolas Maduro is a sworn enemy of the Cuban-American rubio, has claimed to Guyana's Essequibo, which is covered most of the country and is the center of oil production.
“I am confident in the state as State Secretary – there will be consequences for adventurism. There will be consequences for aggressive action,” Rubio told a joint news conference.
Asked what the United States would do if Venezuela ExxonMobil attacks oil projects in Guyana, Rubio said: “It would be a very bad day – a very bad week for them.”
“It would not end well for them,” he said applause from Guyanese officials collected in a banished outdoor pavilion in the tropical heat.
As he stops spelling an American military reaction, Rubio said, “We have a big navy and it can come almost everywhere.”
Rubio signed an agreement to encourage security cooperation with Guyana, including by more information parts. The United States and Guyana previously corresponded to joint maritime patrols.
Guyanese President Irphaan Ali welcomed the position of Rubio, who called the claims of Venezuela 'illegally'.
“I am very satisfied with the reassurance of the US to guarantee the protection of our territorial integrity and sovereignty,” said Ali.
Mauricio Claver-Carone, the American special envoy about Latin America, said earlier that the United States had a future “binding” safety relationship with Guyana that was comparable to the American position in the oil-rich Golf.
The troops of the United States Stations in Gulf Arab countries to guarantee the safety of the small Petro States, in particular against a larger neighbor Iran.
VS is spreading in the hemisphere
Guyana, an English -language former British and Dutch colony where the majority of the 800,000 people still live in poverty, has had a long -term movement that has tried to join the United States for years.
Such a formal accession was not on the agenda, but Trump has made no secret of his passion for expansionism in the western hemisphere, even at the expense of traditional alliances.
The Republican billionaire has sworn to take control of Greenland from Denmark and to take back the Panama Canal.
While Exxon has dominated the oil industry, China has – seen through the Trump administration as the best global opponent – quickly entering Guyana with infrastructure projects, including an extension of the international airport where Rubio landed.
In the meantime, Guyana recalled in March what the invasion of a Venezuelan military ship called in his waters.
Venezuela denied every violation and asked for a meeting with Ali, who struck the offer.
The Parliament in Caracas approved a bill last year to explain the Esisquibo by Guyana as the 24th state of Venezuela, a movement that was rejected internationally.
Guyana insists that the border was completed by an arbitration panel from 1899, but Venezuela claims the Essequibo River to the east of the region as a natural limit that was already recognized in 1777.
The Trump administration has given a high priority to increasing oil production, seeing both economic and safety stimuli and has set aside the push of previous President Joe Biden to diversify to renewable energy sources to tackle the rapidly rising temperature of the planet and climate disasters.
ExxonMobil, based in Texas, took the lead in oil production in Guyana, which has been quickly scaled up for the past five years.
ExxonMobil anticipates the gross production of Guyana of 1.3 million barrels a day towards the end of the decade, which has fallen the current output of Venezuela, whose industry has fallen since the 1990s after mismanagement and American sanctions.
The Trump government, under pressure from anti-communist Latino laws, has canceled the exemption from American oil major Chevron from American sanctions to operate in Venezuela.
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