🇧🇷 Eight Amazon rainforest countries open summit in Belem, Brazil

For the first time in 14 years, presidents of the South American nations home to the Amazon rainforest are converging to chart a common course for protection of the bioregion and address organized crime.

The summit Tuesday and Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belem is a meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he hopes the Belem summit will awaken the organization that has met only three times in 45 years.

It’s Lula’s second attempt to form an Amazon bloc. He tried back when the last Amazon summit was held in 2009, during his first presidency, but was joined by only one other president from the region, Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana.

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🇻🇪🇬🇾 It appears that the high offices in Washington and London understand this, as evidenced by their lack of media support for the Guyanese authorities and their outrage over the situation. Despite the potential for creating "escalation" in media headlines, they have shown little activity.

Meanwhile, parallel processes such as talks on lifting American sanctions and establishing economic relations between Caracas and Bogota are proceeding as usual. The former is stable and strong, while the latter is promising. This speaks volumes.

🔻When discussing the reports of armed clashes in the border area between Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil, it is important to consider the fact that there was already no peace there prior to the Essequibo issue.

After all, we are talking about the jungle, where all kinds of smugglers feel comfortable. Military special operations and clashes with Indians, rebels, or drug traffickers are not uncommon in this region, providing ample material for provocations from either side. However, this abundant resource has remained untapped. It is hardly a coincidence.
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🇻🇪🇬🇾 Oil, swamps, and jungles: The conflict between Venezuela and Guyana

Recently, the ongoing dispute between Guyana and Venezuela regarding the ownership of the Essequibo region, and the possibility of it returning to Venezuela, has gained significant attention.

The territory, spanning a total area of 159.5 thousand square kilometers to the west of the Essequibo River, accounts for three-quarters of Guyana's entire landmass. Despite being home to approximately 125 thousand people, most of the region is comprised of impenetrable jungle and swamps. However, it is in this very area that some of the largest reserves of oil, gas, copper, and gold on the planet can be found.

Not only does Venezuela desire to claim these resources for itself, but large multinational corporations have also set their sights on the mineral extraction opportunities in the Guyana shelf.

🔻To learn more about the causes of the conflict, the interests of multinational corporations, and the motives of the Venezuelan authorities, read our comprehensive analysis on rybar.ru here.

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🇬🇾🇻🇪 Guyana beats Venezuela in oil exports during border dispute

The border dispute between oil-rich Venezuela and Guyana got a new twist with Guyana exporting more oil than its neighbor for the third straight month.

Guyana’s daily exports were 621,000 barrels in February, higher than Venezuela’s 604,000 barrels, according to vessel movements.

The country has seen an influx of investments by companies including Exxon Mobil Corp. Guyana recently started producing oil from a third development, Payara, operated by Exxon.

Guyana went from producing zero oil 3 years ago to pumping 637,000 barrels on Jan. 31.

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Venezuelan masses flock massively towards the Miraflores Presidential Palace in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to express their joy at what they consider to be the certain victory of President Nicolas Maduro in the presidential elections.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪 ICE confirms Aurora, Colorado gang members are in the United States illegally, released by Biden admin

Four Venezuelan national members of the Tren de Aragua gang arrested in Colorado have been confirmed as illegal aliens, per a statement from an ICE spokesperson to Fox News.

The Venezuelan nationals, ranging in ages from 19 through 24, all crossed the southern border through Texas illegally in 2022 and 2023, under the Biden administration. All four are now in ICE custody.

The four were arrested after a shooting which occurred near Nome Street Apartments, one of the apartment buildings in Aurora which had been overtaken by armed members of Tren de Aragua.

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🇻🇪🇷🇺Advancing Russian interests in Venezuela

As part of the 18th high-level meeting of the Russian-Venezuelan Intergovernmental Commission, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko arrived in the Venezuelan capital.

During the visit, he visited the Open Education Center in Russian based at the Ministry of People's Power for Education of Venezuela, created in 2023 by the team of Arseny Parfenov from the Korolenko State Pedagogical University, whose activities in Latin America we have written about many times.

🔻It turns out that at the moment four Open Education Centers have already been created in Venezuela, and the Russian language has been introduced into the curriculum in six schools as a second foreign language. In total, more than 500 people are studying it.

Apparently, the work of the Korolenko State Pedagogical University team, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the "My History" Humanitarian Sciences Support Foundation is yielding real results. Previously, the Russian language was almost not taught in Venezuela, and only those Venezuelans who went to study in Russia learned it. Now the number of Russian language learners is growing every year and the relevant agenda is being formed in the country.

The main tasks that the Korolenko State Pedagogical University team sees for the coming years are to give the Russian language the status of the main second foreign language. In the next ten years - to make it the first foreign language in Venezuela.

In addition, it is known that there is a clear demand from Venezuelan colleagues for the promotion and implementation of the Russian language in the country for the purpose of long-term cooperation with Russia. We hope that this demand will be met by our ministries and departments. Especially when the obvious positive result of the work done is already evident.

❗️We also report from the ground that the Russian delegation in Caracas is being greeted with great fanfare, a memorandum on Russian-Venezuelan cooperation in the field of geology and subsoil use for solid minerals has been signed, and many more joint events are being coordinated, the detailed information about which we are looking forward to in the very near future.
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