• bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Neither option is consulting the indigenous people therein, Guyana because their opinions would obstruct the exploitation of oil, Venezuela bc they can’t survey ppl who aren’t Venezuelan (and if they take the land, they won’t because it would obstruct the exploitation of oil). Live in reality, Guyana keeping the land puts their indigenous people through the same story we’ve seen all over Latin America for decades: company comes in, oil goes out, rivers and land are polluted for generations. It’s just a choice of PDVSA vs Exxon

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      This doesn't exactly leave me supporting Venezuela.

      Living in a war zone sucks even if one side winning would improve your life after. And here you're saying at best things would be only slightly better with Venezuela controlling the land. If Venezuela was doing this to support a homegrown leftist movement fighting Exxon I'd feel a lot different but to my knowledge one doesn't exist.