He United Kingdom is preparing to send a warship to Guyana, a former British colony, due to tensions with neighboring Venezuela over the sovereignty of the Essequibo region. This territory of 160,000 square kilometers, rich in mineral and oil resources, is administered by Guyana as its own since 1966, but Venezuela claims it.
The controversy escalated after Venezuela approved on December 3 in a unilateral referendum to annex Essequibo, and the Maduro Government ordered the settlement of a military division near the disputed area, among other measures.
The dispatch of this warship by the United Kingdom would occur as “show of military and diplomatic support” by the country, as reported this Sunday by the British network ‘BBC’.
Latent armed conflict over Essequibo?
A spokesman for the British Ministry of Defense confirmed this Thursday that the HMS Trent, a British ship that had been deployed in the Caribbean to fight against drug traffickinghas been reassigned after Venezuela’s threats to annex Essequibo.
”HSM Trent will visit our regional allies and Commonwealth Guyana partners later this month as part of a series of engagements in the region during her Atlantic patrol deployment,” the spokesperson said.
Observers have warned of the danger that, if Venezuela invades that territory, the most important armed conflict between countries in South America since the Malvinas War in 1982.
Source: Gestion
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