The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, once again rejected the actions of the Guyana government in trying to grant concession blocks of waters in dispute with our country, and accused that government of being a puppet government of transnational corporations:
“The ExxoMobil government in Guyana has decided to hand over blocks of the undelimited sea of Guyana Esequiba and we are not going to allow it,” said President Maduro, who compared that agreements for peaceful joint exploitation have been signed with Trinidad and Tobago, as an example of how to do things on good terms.
At the request of the head of state, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, explained the next steps that will be taken from an organizational point of view to establish a position as a country on the attempted dispossession of our territories and our resources.
Rodríguez said that after consultations with the Commission for the Defense of the Essequibo Territory, it was decided to call a consultative referendum, not to ask whether or not to decide whether the Essequibo is ours, since that is a fully accepted assumption, but “so that the people directly order the actions that the government must take to defend Essequibo.”
“We will go to the National Electoral Council so that the National Electoral Council, once the legislative initiative to call the consultative referendum has been activated, admits the questions and immediately calls the consultative referendum. We hope it will be before the end of this 2023,” he said.
The president of Parliament said that Commander Chávez and President Maduro have maintained peace diplomacy, which has always been aimed at seeking an agreement in the spirit of the 1966 Geneva agreement.
“But we are facing a government kidnapped by an American company that wants to steal oil from Venezuela,” said Rodríguez.
