Venezuelan Referendum – question five

Oct 29, 2023 Editorial

Kaieteur News – The fifth and final question in the Venezuelan Referendum scheduled for December 3, 2023 is more than loaded, it is explosive. It embodies a most serious threat, a deep and hovering danger to all Guyana. Venezuelans are being asked to vote for making Guyana’s sprawling Essequibo region a part of Venezuela. It helps that Essequibo is rich in many resources, including fauna and flora, marine life, forestry, and mining attributes to take the breath away. Which citizen anywhere in the world would be able to find it in themselves to say no to any such question that requires their vote? Which Venezuelan thinking of himself or herself as a true patriot would have any thought, any inclination, but to vote for incorporating Guyana’s Essequibo into the Bolivarian Republic?

When the last few years of life in Venezuela is considered, the grimness of them and the harsh tolls exacted on ordinary Venezuelans, voting Si (Yes!) to question five on the referendum is all but a foregone conclusion. Because to expand their horizons would seem like a godsend, and doing so under the umbrella of national fervor would be irresistible. This question five articulates the deep-seated convictions of the current crop of Venezuelan leaders, and projects the visions that they harbor to feather the nests of their citizens at the expense of Guyanese.

Offering citizenship to residents of Essequibo is irresponsible and dangerous in its mere contemplation. At its core, it is an intrusion and violation of Guyana’s fundamental rights as a sovereign nation. At its worse, this is a calculated abomination that transgresses every standard of international conduct among nations and reduces standing rules to shambles. It is going around what history has settled since 1899, and in this referendum and its insidious baits reside a truly ugly development that has potential to inflict some serious and lasting harm on Guyana-Venezuela relations.

All of this is asserted because referendum question number five is a brazen land grab that is repulsive and must be repelled. It represents a violation of Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, presently as stated on ballot paper, which is the first step towards annexation of Essequibo, which also must be contested to the bitter end. The question puts a patriotic sheen on a blatant expression of craven ambition that is driven by sheer covetousness, and nothing else. Nothing can nuance or disguise what is at work in that question, and how treacherous and invasive it is to this country’s rights and interests.

Referendum question five is of a reality that is intended, and which is now slowly and inexorably marching forward. Guyanese have better come to their senses, and in the shortest span of time. For, on the one hand, there is the specter of an envious national adversary pushed to madness, by what is going on in Guyana by leaps and bounds. Then, on the other, there is another huge enemy with which Guyanese must contend, internal division now at its rawest.

The enviousness and covetousness of Venezuela have intensified in recent months and are stoked by all the attention and activity that unfold in this local environment daily. There is a flurry of bustling activity occurring in Guyana on several fronts. There is more oil exploration and production reaching new levels. There is massive mining activity with foreign presences involved across a swathe of areas, which is in Essequibo now preposterously and recklessly claimed by Venezuela. There is Guyana’s leading the way in the push for regional food security, and which vast territory of a rich variety makes possible. These are some of the major components that cause the eyes of Venezuelan leaders to glaze over with greed, and which they use to underline the claims on Guyana’s territory.

Referendum question five serves as the basis (poisonous, to be sure) for all of these underpinnings, without a word being said about them. What Venezuelan political players have found to be convenient, and usually works the best, is to instigate jingoism to a boiling point. Though smaller and comparatively less endowed with ordinance, Guyanese must be ready to take on any foe, and absorb any blow from any aggressor for this land and this rich patrimony.

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1 thoughts on “Venezuelan Referendum – question five”

John Exterminator October 29, 2023 at 11:24 am

THE 1st INVASION by 20,000 VENEZUELAN CITIZENS INTO ESSEQUIBO/ GUYANA HAS OCCURRED!

THE 2nd INVASION SHALL BE THE MILITARY INVASION!

Purposeless Beasts of Burden:-

As a Philosophical Non-Religious Human Termite I have a disease of clear vision & tend to see Problems more Clearly than the blind religious.

I comprehend the argument that: “All Human Termites…Need to Eat”

However, Guyana, because of this ‘Government of Kleptocratic Primates’ Blissfully Ignorant-OPEN BORDERS POLICY…Guyanese Citizens shall find out how bad ignorant & blind religious human termites are, especially 100% religious human termites with their need to feed & destroy!

*“Government” of ignorant Kleptocratic Primates we’re still waiting on the “Fat-head” of the 15 day suspendee to play Futbol with!

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