Venezuela tells UN court that mineral-rich part of Guyana was fraudulently taken in colonial era

Natives consider themselves guyanese and own most of southern part of the essequibo,my family have lived in the essequibo area for generations on the Northern side and everyone I know don't want to apart of Venezuela

The same US that’s been supporting Guyana this entire time and already has United States companies building up oil infrastructure after they sign contracts with the Guyana government? That makes no sense to support Venezuela claim to something the US already has access to.

Theres no art , its the bumble of the steal.

It is woke if you only focus on western moral missteps without considering that atrocities have been part of the human story since we have existed as a species. It is woke if you hold western countries to different standards than non western countries. It is woke if you expect impossible to meet moral perfection from the west which prevents us from fighting wars or protecting ourselves, while our enemies work with complete operational freedom.

Oh so we should be demanding the Mongolians to apologise for what they did to half the world as well then? Oh wait that doesn’t count. What about the Arab and African tribes who also participated in the Atlantic slave trade and even before that? Oh they don’t count either? How conveniently comfortable it must be to view the world through a victim vs oppressor lens without any nuance.

*Venezuela* was "fraudulently taken during the colonial era. Or is Spanish native to that part of the world?

Simply as a starting point to any discussion of Essequibo's ownership, my standard challenge to anyone supporting Venezuela's claim is: 1. Identify any Venezuelan or Spanish settlement, fort or trading post ever set up in the disputed region and its years of operation. 2. Identify any indigenous population group/settlement that ever acknowledged or operated under Spanish or Venezuelan authority in the disputed region. 3. Identify any Spanish or Venezuelan administrative activity that has ever taken place in the disputed region e.g. taxation, land titling, court cases, infrastructure works etc Again, this is just as a starting point of the discussion. So we can establish the land was indeed Venezuelan at some point before we even get to the issue of whether it was taken. Point 2 is especially important I think, because while there are no Spanish/Venezuelan accounts of it happening, there ARE accounts of Indigenous groups driving them out of the disputed area.