Love the wording on those questions, especially the first: Do you agree to reject by all means in accordance with the law, the line fraudulently interposed by the 1899 Paris Arbitration Award, which seeks to deprive us of our Guayana Esequiba?…or are you some kind of sissy?
― Tapioca by Jean Sibelius (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 4 December 2023 17:53 (four months ago) link
So what does this actually mean? What happens next? I still don't really understand the purpose of this referendum
Brazil seem to be taking it seriously enough to send troops to the border region, as presumably any operation would have to traverse Brazilian territory given the terrain. Or is all just bluster ahead of next years election? But what does a referendum with no subsequent action achieve
― anvil, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 10:04 (four months ago) link
Ordené de manera inmediata publicar y a llevar a todas las escuelas, liceos, Consejos Comunales, establecimientos públicos, universidades y en todos los hogares del país el nuevo Mapa de Venezuela con nuestra Guayana Esequiba. ¡Este es nuestro mapa amado! pic.twitter.com/qliW31Lyb9— Nicolás Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) December 6, 2023
New Venezuela map just dropped
― anvil, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 08:01 (four months ago) link
I realize there's a lot of focus on this at the moment, but I remembered this from a few years ago about the upcoming situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLZMW6gbAY
3 different perspectives on the situation, including a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower
― anvil, Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:49 (four months ago) link
After a lot of attention on this earlier, now seems to have gone quiet. I'm not sure what happens next, Venezuelan elections aren't until the second half of 2024
― anvil, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 11:05 (four months ago) link
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-guyana-presidents-meet-amid-territorial-dispute-2023-12-14/
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 16:31 (four months ago) link
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/ecuador-under-emergency-as-drug-lord-fito-escapes-jail/103298002
― StanM, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 08:42 (three months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/ecuador-gangs-wave-terror-state-of-emergency
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:02 (three months ago) link
Insane situation.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
Second time he has escaped!
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:06 (three months ago) link
ugh
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link
This footage is gnarlsberg:
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:45 (three months ago) link