It also seems clear that the dispute, which centres on control of the Essequibo region in western Guyana, a sparsely populated area the size of Greece that constitutes about two-thirds of Guyanese territory, is mostly about oil. In 2015, the US oil giant, ExxonMobil, discovered a big field off Guyana’s coast, largely within its exclusive economic zone.

The discovery has swollen Guyana’s estimated oil reserves to about 11bn barrels.

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    11 months ago

    Reserve families were pulled from their families, jobs, and lives

    Yea I don’t think so

    Trump did literally the same thing in 2018, and he did it over the holiday season. It was a political stunt through and through.

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      11 months ago

      Fair point. Though I’ll add that it was a fairly small number, and he did not win his next election.