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Very significant (massive) oil reserves have been discovered offshore Guyana as early as 2008 by Exxon Mobil and of course Guyana borders Venezuela, accordingly Maduro has been sword rattling claiming territorial disputes threatening to take back Guyana. Exxon Mobil is drilling successfully now and the Guyanian economy is booming. Typically wherever US interests are threatened in the world, the military intervenes.

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Exactly. As long as Guiana is happy doing multinational business with US-allied companies, they're active participants in USA trade hegemony and that is sufficient.

Venezuela is not. They're heavily sanctioned by the USA and have to do their petrol business elsewhere - also not using US dollars as exchange currency. POTUS made clear this situation will not continue as is.

Isn't Guyana French?

The Guyana that borders Venezuela is independent, but ex-British. French Guyana is on the other end of that set of three little countries.

So there's French Guiana, and then Guyana. Both are part of the Guianas (or Guyanas/Guayanas).

The "Guiana" region (land of waters), was home to the Arawak and Carib peoples, and then there was a colonial scramble between the Dutch, English and French over the last half millennia-- each respectively took over some portion and then slapped their names on it.

Guyana is independently english speaking because they were colonized by the British- centuries ago it used to go by British Guiana.

French Guiana is basically an overseas department of France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guianas

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