Further to my brief post about Venezuela's coveting the oil-rich Guyana region of Essequibo, it seems that high-level talks are due to begin on Thursday. President Maduro seeks to gain the territory by legalistic means knowing that a military expedition is unlikely to succeed.
An interesting fact arose during a BBC World Service discussion on the issue. The population of Guyana is only just over 800,000. Thanks to recent petroleum developments, GDP per head has grown over the century from less than $4,000 to $19,000 currently and is predicted to rise to $45,000. It seems to me that those people suffering from poverty and oppression in certain Central American states should not be heading north through Mexico to the US, but across the Caribbean to Guyana.
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