Tag Archives: Venezuela

Venezuela was engaged in a variety of orchestrated cyber operations targeting Guyana, according to Assistant Director of the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) National Defence Institute (NDI), Dr. Seon Levius. The NDI said in a statement that in a hard-hitting exposé on Venezuela’s orchestrated cyber operations targeting Guyana, Dr Levius unveiled the faces, names, and organisations behind the malicious campaign to ...

By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams, Esq. ConocoPhillips knew it was in for a rough ride when it gave in to the lure of Venezuela’s oil and an array of concessions. Oil it was that put Venezuela on a slippery path to conflict on the global stage. Before bedazzling ConocoPhillips in the 1990s, the South American provocateur nationalized the oil concessions ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus We all love truth, but they are different kinds of truths. The truth most universally loved is moral and transcendental. We can call this truth in itself; it is spaceless and timeless. Then there is truth that is based on rationality. In this case, truth is based on cost-benefit analysis, on a logic of ...

The United States (US) is disappointed that only two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states endorsed a joint statement calling for democracy in Venezuela, but welcomes Guyana and Suriname’s support.  “We were extremely pleased that the governments of Guyana and Suriname signed on to that statement. It’s incredibly important to us that we are all together in defending democracy in this ...

By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams It was a few dreadful months ago that Guyana, one of the world’s recently minted petro-states, was desperately scrambling to mobilize the international community to avert war with Venezuela. The conflict heightened the risk of instability in the Caribbean and Latin America over a decades-old border controversy between two former colonies, squabbling over territory. When ...

by Alexandra Panzarelli In 1989, excluded Venezuelans took to the streets to condemn a political class that was leaving them behind. It was a bloody encounter between the people and the repressive state that marked a deep fracture with representative democracy in Venezuela. This moment highlighted the consequences of social exclusion and marginalization, revealing a political class deaf to the ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Saturday night accused High Court Judge Gino Persaud of displaying poor judgement by attacking him personally with “intemperate sentiments”, and ignored the likelihood of provoking Venezuela over Guyana’s sovereignty by allowing the registration of a foreign Arbitral Award in Guyana. Mr Nandlall said government would appeal the High Court’s decision, and he left open the ...

by United States-based Venezuelan Political Scientist, Alexandra Panzarelli During my many years as a Venezuelan ex-pat, I’ve delved into the remarkable connection between an authoritarian and populist leader–Hugo Chávez, and his people following his 1992 coup attempt. How can one explain such devotion to a leader whose violence and corruption ravaged a country, triggered an unprecedented migratory crisis, and plundered ...

by R. Evan Ellis As Venezuela moves toward promised national elections on July 28, my heart is with the hopes of Venezuelans for a miracle that will translate their courageous act of voting, into a restoration of democracy. Everything I have seen unfold in the country over the past 25 years of my career in government and the private sector following Venezuela leads me to ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Tuesday filed questions again on the visit by United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, hours after House Speaker Manzoor Nadir refused to entertain several questions without notice on the same issue. Mr Nadir told the House that the questions by frontbencher Amanza Walton-Desir to Foreign Affairs Minister ...