{"id":150578,"date":"2023-12-09T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150578"},"modified":"2023-12-09T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:35:51","slug":"the-us-announced-joint-military-flight-drills-in-guyana-in-response-venezuelan-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150578","title":{"rendered":"The US announced joint military flight drills in Guyana in response Venezuelan referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldiers-in-jungle-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-150579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldiers-in-jungle-02-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldiers-in-jungle-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldiers-in-jungle-02-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldiers-in-jungle-02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldiers-in-jungle-02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldiers-in-jungle-02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelans recently held a referendum. This referendum involved asserting Venezuela&#8217;s claims to the Essequibo region of Guyana. Venezuelan President, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, claimed overwhelming support in this referendum, despite low voter turnout. This action prompted Guyana, and countries like the United States and Brazil, as well as the United Nations, to issue statements related to this development.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From CBS News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States announced joint military flight drills in Guyana on Thursday as tensions over a contested oil-rich region with neighbor Venezuela prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an urgent meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A border feud has been spiraling over the Essequibo region, which has been administered and controlled by Guyana for more than a century, although Venezuela also claims the disputed area. Venezuela recently conducted a referendum, which it claims citizens supported, that aims to give Venezuela authority over the Essequibo region. Guyanese officials said in response that the country is preparing to defend itself and its borders in case of an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The United States announced joint military flight drills in Guyana on Thursday as tensions over a contested oil-rich region with neighbor Venezuela prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an urgent meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A border feud has been spiraling over the Essequibo region, which has been administered and controlled by Guyana for more than a century, although Venezuela also claims the disputed area. Venezuela recently conducted a referendum, which it claims citizens supported, that aims to give Venezuela authority over the Essequibo region. Guyanese officials said in response that the country is preparing to defend itself and its borders in case of an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The spat is drawing in the international community, with the U.S. announcement of military exercises the latest sign that Washington is alarmed at the threat from the authoritarian leftist Venezuelan government of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In collaboration with the Guyana Defense Force, the U.S. Southern Command will conduct flight operations within Guyana on December 7,&#8221; the U.S. Embassy in Guyana said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CBS News has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/guyana-venezuela-conflict-essequibo-oil-us-military-flight-drills\/\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venezuelans recently held a referendum. This referendum involved asserting Venezuela&#8217;s claims to the Essequibo region &hellip; <a title=\"The US announced joint military flight drills in Guyana in response Venezuelan referendum\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150578\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The US announced joint military flight drills in Guyana in response Venezuelan referendum<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-international-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}