{"id":5972,"date":"2023-12-13T02:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2023-12-13T02:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:54:13","slug":"leaders-of-venezuela-and-guyana-to-meet-amid-border-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2023\/12\/13\/leaders-of-venezuela-and-guyana-to-meet-amid-border-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders of Venezuela and Guyana to meet amid border dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/12\/10\/leaders-of-venezuela-and-guyana-to-meet-amid-border-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since large quantities of oil were discovered in the Essequibo territory of Guyana, Venezuela and Guyana have been at odds with each other over whose territory it belongs to. On December 14th, the two nations plan to meet, with Brazil\u2019s president acting as witness, to discuss Venezuela\u2019s recent claim on annexation. Although the upcoming peace talk is to discuss this issue, Guyana\u2019s president claimed that \u201cGuyana\u2019s land boundary is not up for discussion.\u201d Two Latin American regional blocs, the CELAC and CARICOM, will also attend the meeting to mediate between the two clashing parties. While the territory is currently under Guyana\u2019s property, Venezuela asserts ownership due to its historical relation with the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to delve into what would occur if Venezuela gained this territory. With nearly \u215b of Guyana\u2019s population living in Essequibo, these people would now be part of Venezuela, a country that doesn\u2019t speak their language (Guyana\u2019s official language is English) nor has the same currency. Although this doesn\u2019t mean that Essequibo would fall into anarchy, the people would not be pleased with the changes that they\u2019d have to go through and the change would certainly cause unrest. Similarly, Venezuela has been known for its vast oil reserves and its position in the global energy trade, so it\u2019s interesting to see that they\u2019re willing to go this far for more oil reserves even though they have large quantities of their own. It\u2019s important to note that at the same time, their government is undergoing a very unstable period of corruption and their people are also in great poverty, so perhaps obtaining the oil would greatly boost their economy. It\u2019s difficult to believe that people are still \u201cconquering\u201d and trying to annex other countries today–it feels like something of the past. Looking at it as an American and how we were greatly involved in global affairs, I\u2019ve heard nothing about this in the news, considering that a country is impeding on another country\u2019s sovereignty, something we firmly stand against.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In class, we\u2019ve spoken about constructivist theory and how it relates a country\u2019s behavior to its historical identity throughout history. Something that Venezuela brought up while discussing their claim over Essequibo was the fact that they historically owned that place. This relates to constructivist theory because it gives them reason to claim ownership and dictates the behavior that Venezuela took in this situation. Furthermore, in the article, the Brazilian president claims that his presence as an observer would be to \u201cavoid unilateral measures that could escalate the situation.\u201d We\u2019ve spoken about how unilateral action is more of a realist perspective, where cooperation and discussions with other nations do not occur out of self-interest and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/12\/10\/leaders-of-venezuela-and-guyana-to-meet-amid-border-dispute Since large quantities of oil were discovered in the Essequibo territory of Guyana, Venezuela and Guyana have been at odds with each other over whose territory it belongs to. On December 14th, the two nations plan to meet, with Brazil\u2019s president acting as witness, to discuss Venezuela\u2019s recent claim on annexation. Although the upcoming peace talk is to discuss… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}