Venezuela’s sudden concern for Int’l Law absurd

Oct 19, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

Senor Carlos Amador Perez Silv, Venezuela’s Ambassador to Guyana recent remarks are a masterclass in hypocrisy and disinformation. His government’s sudden concern for international law is absurd, given its own record of violating it.

Venezuela has repeatedly intruded into Guyanese waters, including a coast guard vessel in 2025 and a frigate in 2013. Yet it now cries foul over U.S. operations in international waters in the Caribbean Sea. This is pure distraction from the Maduro regime’s internal failures and its aggression towards its neighbors.

His arguments collapse under scrutiny:

The fantasy of a U.S. invasion is a deliberate lie to distract from the regime’s economic ruin and role in the international drug trade.
A representative of a regime that jails opponents and has forced over 7 million citizens to flee their country, is in no position to lecture anyone on “due process.”
Accusing the U.S. of wanting Venezuelan oil is a confession of the regime’s own looting of the nation’s wealth for its corrupt elite. The U.S. is very satisfied with its relationship with Guyana and Trinidad on the oil related projects; no need for Venezuela to be a “pot-salt”.
Claims of peace are meaningless while Venezuela deploys troops on our border, builds illegal airstrips, and orchestrates a sham referendum to annex two-thirds of Guyana.
Calling this military build-up “precautionary” is an insult to our intelligence. It is coercion, plain and simple.

The real threat to our region is not a fictional U.S. invasion, but the very real aggression of the Maduro regime. We will not be fooled by these empty words.

Shame, also, on regional voices like St. Vincent’s Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who would sell out Guyana’s sovereignty for cheap political favours. The Guyanese people are watching you Senor Gonsalves and we know a sell out when we see one.

Vishnu Prashad

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