Request for help came after Venezuelan president announced series of measures to formalize a referendum Sunday evening

Request for help came after Venezuelan president announced series of measures to formalize a referendum Sunday evening

Guyana has appealed for help from the United Nations and the United States as the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, announced a series of measures intended to advance its annexation of two-thirds of the tiny South American nation’s territory.

“I have spoken to the secretary general of the United Nations and several leaders, alerting them of these dangerous developments and the desperate actions of President Maduro,” Irfaan Ali, president of Guyana, said in a television broadcast late on Tuesday, as he informed the nation of 800,000 of Maduro’s latest steps intended to create a new Venezuelan state in Guyana.

  • @cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
    12•7 months ago

    Lula and Maduro used to be pretty chummy I think, but Brazil seems to not be tolerating this little excursion.

    • JJROKCZEnglish
      4•7 months ago

      Except for one tiny piece of border, Venezuela has to cross Brazil’s land to get to Guyana. Brazil isn’t just going to watch the army of an expansion minded nation walk across their land on a conquest mission. It makes them look ridiculously weak if they just let their neighbors march through their sovereign land