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Guyana's President Irfaan Ali speaks during a press conference in Argyle, St Vincent, December 14, 2023
Meanwhile, US sends its first charge d’affaires to Venezuela in seven years after Maduro kidnapping
GUYANA President Irfaan Ali slammed an incursion by an armed Venezuelan naval vessel on Saturday into disputed waters that are home to a mammoth offshore oil deposit being developed by ExxonMobil.
In a televised address, Mr Ali said Guyana was hurriedly notifying all of its international allies and had summoned Venezuela’s ambassador to lodge a formal protest.
“This incursion is a matter of grave concern,” he said.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
