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Weekly Report - 18 June 2015 (WR-15-24)
VENEZUELA: Guyana 1: Venezuela 0
Guyana’s new president David Granger may not have much of a navy to call upon in defence of his country’s maritime territory, but he wasted no time in calling in the big guns in response to a controversial decree issued by Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, which claimed for Venezuela all of Guyana’s maritime waters, leaving the former British colony completely landlocked. After Guyana appealed to the United Nations (UN) to intervene in support of a “judicial settlement”, Venezuela appeared to backtrack a little on 8 June, citing “faults in the original” decree published in the official gazette on 27 May and noting that there was “still a sea area to delimit”. Venezuelan blogspot Caracas Chronicles was among several critics to accuse Maduro of propagating “a real economic war…bullying and intimidating a smaller, poorer neighbour for the purpose of spooking away foreign investors and preventing it from carrying out strategic investments”.
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