President Ali's interview with BBC News on the Guyana Venezuela Border Controversy

[@kevinmohan4008]

Im from guyana. And currently Venezuelans are leaving their country and coming to live and work in guyana

[@sharonrobinsonhair6835]

Trinidad also! Is flooded with Vennies

[@leemotie7441]

Why the Venezuela citizen don’t vote to remove the gov because thousand of citizen is coming to Trinidad due to bad gov.

[@aaronruben9962]

Simply answer :- Communist dictators usually rig elections. For all we know is the morajority of the Venezuelan population, do not support muduro. But the dictator has the military on his side, and that's all that matters.

[@jeanbastien9424]

Votes are meaningless when you live in a dictatorship.

[@bradleywelch9290]

@@aaronruben9962 I heard that they snuff out their opposition by threatening them, preventing them from travelling and other nefarious means too.

[@charlesowens2971]

This is one of the most IGNORANT comments I found... Venezuelans are prisoners of a communist regime. That's why... EVERYONE knows it, have you been living under a rock for the last 25 years??

[@carlosmattey3135]

Im from Venezuela and this is 100% true​@@aaronruben9962

[@truthfulgames1616]

Dear Guyana continue to pray and cry out to God as a nation for His protection and justice. You are in a spiritual war. Put on fhe full amor of God. Ephesians chapter 6. Love from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@nackab]

Spiritual war indeed. Not many understand that. 🇹🇹

[@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

Amen 🙏🏾

[@carlyle4414]

Well said Mr President 👏

[@trickydicky90]

What did he say?. Did I miss something important 🤔

[@krishendatjitu1846]

The are over 100 thousand Venezuelan in Guyana ,that are looking for food and shelter ,those people are shameless

[@randysingh6548]

Essiquibo belong to guyana for over 140 yrs now. 300.000 thousands guyanese live in that region.

[@jenellebacchus3758]

Well said Mr President. We Guyanese have to pray 🙏. Madura is a wicked evil man who have nothing to loose

[@Mythoughts-kz7kl]

Thank you President of Guyana. Venezuelans needs to focus on their own big country ..they have so much land and they are starving because of their government. Essequibo can't save them. Causing harm to Guyanese will make them face more sufferings.

[@brooklynusa670]

Mr President time to get TOUGH call in your Abrab friends

[@brooklynusa670]

Call in King Salman from Islamic Brotherhood

[@ganeshr4371]

Guyana be brave. Don't allow them to steal your oil

[@charlesowens2971]

That land has belonged to Venezuela ever since the Spanish arrived on the continent. Therefore, that oil is Venezuelan oil...

[@og.lac4real]

I feared this would have happened and the government still moving like a joker 🃏

[@brooklynusa670]

I would be scared too if I encountered big bully armed Frankenstein Maduro in my peaceful jungle. I wouldn't know what to do if I encountered greedy homeless migrants in my house

[@kapildeendyal7460]

All these years Venezuela never claimed essquibo no the saying is belongs to them bull crap because we have oils that's y 💯

[@vishwaranjan7802]

guyana every inch of your land is your motherland and INDIA stands strong with you all

[@nalenilambourdiere9620]

The vast majority of the population of Guyana are descendants of indentured workers, taken from India, in the 1800s, by the British. To this day, India is called the mother land. Our culture has evolved, but we do upkeep some traditions from India. Thank you, for your support, from around the world, especially from India. It means a lot, since various people from India tend to tell us that we are not Indians, because we have lost part of our original culture. Have a great day, everyone.

[@joanfredericks]

💯 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🙏🙏🙏

[@black2create71]

Good job Mr. President.

[@RodinThink28]

This is what happens when strong American leadership is replaced by wobbly weak wimps. All adventurous countries now see their opportunity to pounce and get their way which is why we see the world in so much turmoil.

[@randysingh6548]

Guyana has large hindu population and muslim population and large afro guyanese population so the entire world should help guyana defend its righful territory. Reply

[@debratyrell9616]

All that this man just said about Venezuela relates to Guyana..we are suffering the same way Maduro people suffering

[@user-pb6st6ft4d]

As a young Guyanese. I know one thing if the Venezuela dont accept the 1899 rule. Will l think the should leave it to the Spain and England. Because the are the founder of the country,s

[@peterjaniceforan3080]

🇬🇾👍

[@Penn4286]

Guyana is the only country in South America where English is the official language . The U.S.A. and the United Kingdom need to tell Maduro --- " don`t even think of attacking Guyana !! The Venezuelans have ruined their own oil-rich country , now they want to take Guyana`s oil !!

[@shaunjohnson9340]

Usa already sent the javolins....Good luck muduro

[@user-fk5fi3uq5h]

President Ali make happy deals with Exxon Mobil and Venezuela problem will go away, also Guyana Government need to pay for protection, until .......

[@phrous]

This president is weak, expecting Venezuela to respect the law is just to careless, with all the sanctions on Venezuela what is the worst ICJ can do

[@abbe1abbe156]

Guyana is not a warmonger nation. It is a peaceful country. The President comes from a place of peace. Venezuela is not respecting the treaty.

[@anthonycordua852]

This is karma for Guyana. They annexed a part of Suriname many years ago.

[@RishiSingh-cf9iv]

This will never ever happen in your dream

[@alisonfreeman57]

I missed something in history. When did Guyana or British guyana annexe Suriname, which year??Who is this person?

[@Big_Jake1196]

Who's this fool what year did this happen???

[@abbe1abbe156]

This is propaganda. Guyana did not do anything to Suriname. Suriname had a couple almost every month in the 1980s and 1990s. Your military overthrew almost every government you had because of corruption. Please stop spreading propaganda.

[@anthonycordua852]

@@alisonfreeman57 go read about Tigri 1969!

[@paulinesingh7885]

Maduro.. when you bully... you suffer in hell...when you steal or thief... you burn in hell.. you dont carry those material things you are bullying for.... 😮

[@T.a.r.a.n.t.o.e.l.a-1]

The same here from Suriname to Guyana that came in Suriname And thieves trigi

[@skrmacs4815]

this guy needs to bring in USA soldiers.

[@surendranauth7147]

US, UK and THE Bravest fighting soldiers on earth....the Gurkhas, from Nepal Northern India. Currently serving in the British Arm Forces and Highly Respected by HM King Charles and the Late Queen Elizabeth 2nd.

[@dboi_joe3023]

I believe they will annex it

[@charlesowens2971]

They most certainly will...

[@rosnielrojas6437]

El Esequibo es y será siempre de Venezuela gustele a quien le guste siempre será territorio venezolano y si tenemos que ir a la guerra iremos, además aca no se trata de si Venezuela está con dictadura o no acá se trata de que nos robaron un territorio y tenemos que recuperarlo

[@jeanbastien9424]

Europeans stole Venezuela from the indigenous people, are you going to give that back? Venezuela is a failure of a country and will fail again when trying to steal Guyanese land.

[@abbe1abbe156]

You will go to war with America and lose because Essequibo will always belong to Guyana.

[@Natonyamaynard1932]

Essequibo belongs to guyana and its even shows so on your map

[@rosnielrojas6437]

@@Natonyamaynard1932 I'm going to tell you in English to see if you understand, Essequibo is from Venezuela, it has always been and always will be whether you like it or not because we do have a historical legacy that shows us That Essequibo is from Venezuela appears on the first Spanish maps as part of the general captaincy of Venezuela and was part of the great Colombia, so it is from Venezuela

[@sandy11711]

The word ESSEQUIBO is not a Spanish word get it right and it doesn’t have any Spanish background nothing to do with Venezuela.

[@myworld8266]

BBC and the West sit there in their man made fibre coats and shoes and trousers, some with their plastic glasses, and plastic high vis jackets, with their man made fibre flags, getting to the place on the tarmac roads and pathways, carrying their stuff in their man made fibre backpacks, with their plastic component phones, earphones, eating their veg foods grown mainly in plastic trays in plastic covered greenhouses supplied with water through their plastic pipes, transported around the world in plastic crates in vehicles made with plastics and using fossil fuels for the power source, they sit under lights powered by electricity passed via wires which are plastic coated. Everything above requires FOSSIL FUELS - they all come from the PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY - Without fossil fuels there would be no electricity, because there would be no safe way to move it around. There would be no home water supplies or toilets, because the pipes used to move water around the country are plastic, the pipes used to move sewage around the country are plastic the toilet cisterns are plastic. The homes they live in are made from huge amounts of plastic materials, the window frames are plastic the doors are plastic, the gutters are plastic, the soffits and fanciers are plastic, the light fittings are plastic, the wires are covered in plastic, the water pipes are plastic, the fridges, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washing machines, clothes dryers, the blenders, the mixers are all made using lots of plastics. The cars they drive or even the transport they use are mainly plastic the wires are covered in plastics, the light units are plastic, most of the interiors are plastic or man made fibres, the under trays and body protection under the cars are plastics, all the connectors are plastics, the heater pipes are plastics. China has been and is increasing its Oil imports year on year by 100's of millions of barrels per year, so they can make the plastics and other petrochemicals for the world to use THE WEST HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL ANY NATION ABOUT Oil and Gas Production.

[@theopinions47]

Words cannot stop an Army. You only have 5000 or so troops. If Venezuela 🇻🇪 and it’s 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers decide to take that land there is nothing that you can do except run 🏃‍♂️ to America and ask for asylum. You need to build up your military.

[@jacobsmith7114]

@theopinions47 I have met countless refugees from Venezuela who ran away from their home country to the U.S.. Whole families. Venezuela is an absolute mess. The world needs less Venezuela, not more.

[@sandy11711]

No the r broke

[@dreamer6508]

Can they feed 300,000 troops in another country 😅

[@theopinions47]

@@dreamer6508 yes it’s called living off the land.

[@truthfulgames1616]

Guyana you may not have an army but you are a praying people. Standing in prayer for your protection from Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@latchminsingh8835]

Columbia should take back Venezuela. And British return to Guyana.

[@charlesowens2971]

Venezuela liberated Colombia and other countries, and now, Venezuela will take back what was always theirs... I know you do not want to hear it, but it was on Venezuelan maps long before the existence of Guyana... and it will be back on it.

[@Natonyamaynard1932]

Only them see it that way and if they strongly believe that why does their map says different?

[@charlesowens2971]

@@Natonyamaynard1932 Sorry, I can't understand what you're saying...

[@592trouble5]

Bring in the US soldiers, make a deal with the US, and nobody will fcuk with Guyana.

[@comedicmood2729]

This might seem nit picky, but Irfan Ali needs a stylist! He rarely looks presidential. Not even saying you have to go with the Eurocentric Suit & Tie. But even here, wearing White is wrong for the backdrop. The eyes are distracted & the entire video looks 'cheap'. (Image is important) #LookThePart

[@peterbradshaw8018]

Invite Caricom British and Common Wealth countries to conduct war games along the border and stop running up your mouth on the BBC. While you are at it read the biography of Chamberlain and the Munich agreement. You really think pieces of paper and hot air matter now. Your vocabulary is all wrong use the word invade and destroy the state of Guyana stop talking about Essequibo it Guyana Mr Prime Minister.

[@Gemz0001]

Guyana and US will expand Venezuela borders and get more oil all thanks to mad man Maduro 😂😂😂

[@joseleged6615]

El Sol de Venezuela nace en el Esequibo.

[@abbe1abbe156]

Essequibo belongs to Guyana. Ask the people who live there.

[@joseleged6615]

@@abbe1abbe156 EL SOL DE VENEZUELA NACE EN EL ESEQUIBO.

[@charlesowens2971]

@@abbe1abbe156 Essequibo belongs to Venezuela, and it will be a part of Venezuela again very soon, regardless of what the people who live there want.

[@user-ky4gv5cs6s]

Mind your own business your V P made arrangement with venezuala to give them land so u and he should face the world court

[@RishiSingh-cf9iv]

Venezuela gives us land to live at one time

[@topchingon]

It's about to go down. I got my money on VENEZUELA because it is a bigger and more populated country which means more troops for the war. Granted that no 3rd party steps in to help....

[@Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387]

Is it going to be a Latin American version of Russia vs Ukraine

[@sandy11711]

The don’t have the funds for that.

[@jeanbastien9424]

Guyana is smaller, but at least we have food, unlike Venezuela.

[@abbe1abbe156]

Guyana is friends with China, Russia and America. Let's see what happens.

[@doreenramsey1016]

If they want to fight, fight! Venezuela has the army and thw Indians will be going back to India and the indigenous people will have their region and we shall have peace.

[@sandy11711]

Venezuela is broke so think before u talk bully’s.

[@doreenramsey1016]

@@sandy11711 with 1.4 billion in gold reserves in the UK I can hardly call Venezuela pooer. Venezuela has oil more than Guyana and if it was not for oil Guyana would be bush. Venezuela will rise. No nation will be cast down forever in such abundance of natural resources. When Africa rises they shall rise also.

[@abbe1abbe156]

​@@doreenramsey1016lol😂 The same UK that Venezuela is accusing of stealing Essequibo. Let's see if the UK will let them get the gold. 😂

[@treymorris8096]

International law my ass

[@frederick28tube]

The president of Guyana is scared, he doesn't even know how to argue the problem well, he knows that Guyana should not have given oil concessions in a disputed territory, now he doesn't know what to do.

[@bibiaziz8636]

Keep your negative comments to yourself if you don't have anything to do! Our president is an intelligent man and he knows where he stands and how to defend his country!?

[@skrmacs4815]

disputed. get outta here

[@dieglhix]

maduro monkey

[@sadlife4josh547]

We ain’t scared 😂 and it’s always our territory they just claiming it due to oil reserve

[@bajanworldstar5636]

@@bibiaziz8636 he needs to Prepare for evacuation if he isn’t going to buy weapons n tanks

[@josezamora2981]

Mr. President of Guyana, with all due respect, Venezuela does not recognize the Paris Arbitration Award because it is flawed and thus remains recorded in history. I think he should abandon the rhetoric and grandiloquence before his "allies" and resume direct diplomatic negotiations with Venezuela. These are not times of arrogance but of consensus, we must resume dialogue and seek a direct and peaceful solution without the intervention of organizations outside of America, or opportunistic allies, it is the most favorable for both nations and the strengthening of peace in the region . . , like the great homeland that Bolívar said, that America where we all fit and are free.

[@brooklynusa670]

Using "With all due respect " & biased "voting" systems just disguises Maduro's real actions & turn him into " honest colonists " is a colonists bully or " polite thief"

[@wollins2]

With respect, Mr Zamora ... I have only one question. Did Venezuela sign on as a consenting party to the Paris Arbitration Award? It's a simple YES or NO question. 😉 We're all waiting with bated breath for your answer.

[@brooklynusa670]

polite " all due respect...." & bullying disguised as "voting" to legitimize highway robbery $$ of poor Indigenous people just makes you an "honest respectul thief" Venezuela is big already with its own oil, it is only Venezuela greed & lust that is causing this trouble

[@brooklynusa670]

Bullies always try to insolate their victims from help before they attack when nobody watching. America UAE are our friends because they know Venezuela is greedy for more land & oil $$ plain & simple

[@tashasharma6535]

You people are spanish .Venezuela belongs to our Amerindians. Spain stole lots of lands from the peaceful Amerindians

[@jhoanrivero7885]

Because that territory was stolen by the English in an illegal trial, where Venezuela had no representatives, Guyana inherited usurped land. We are victims of the dispossession of the English Empire, we must live in peace.

[@SteveXNYC]

"ESSEQUIBO" is a Spanish word. "Venezuela " is a Spanish word. ESSEQUIBO and Venezuela belong together. I am not stupid. I AM GUYANESE.

[@doreenramsey1016]

You are the only one with sense here. The entire land from Venezuela to Argentina belongs to these indigenous people that make up Venezuela Bolivia, Peru and such. This land was cut from Venezuela by the Europeans and made little countries within their borders in the 1700.

[@brooklynusa670]

Esquibbo Guiana are INDIAN words .Spainish is language of Spanish Colonists from EUROPE, read history if you can. Plus Indians walked across the Bering Strait from India & became different tribes Apache Cherokee Mayan Aztec Carib Arzwaks. Columbus saw us he knew we need not Africans Chinese or white we are Indians not Spanish they are our enslavers our colonists which same thing Maduro is doing

[@brooklynusa670]

Ramsey is our Indian God from India .Ramayana our holy book literally means Ram Says which is YOUR NAME. Not SPANISH but INDIAN the original people of Guiana. Venezuela is Spanish not Indian. All Indians are one.Mayans are language Atez style temples are the same style you would find in Sputh India , roti is burrito, we ise jeera you use cumin. Euporeans Spanish look different, white. Indians whether from Mexico or Guiana loom the same : straight hair brown biege etc Support Guiana your Indian heritage country hiding in the jungles of Essquibo, last real Indians left . Do not support mad man colonists Maduro against your Guiana Indian blood true South Americans

[@doreenramsey1016]

@@brooklynusa670 dude Ramsey is Creole. They are from Trinidad but are Europeans. Most of them are on Tobago Europeans names. Lots of Caucasians have it because they became European. Indians are Ramsay and ramkinsoon and ramdanny, Bahamans and ramdeen and stuff. Don't mix Creole with Indian

[@doreenramsey1016]

@@brooklynusa670 Indians are not related to the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Americas. Where did you get this nonsense? When the so-called Columbus came to this region he was looking for India in the east. He saw the indigenous people with their long hair on their back and thought he reached east so he called them Indians. Realizing he was west, they sailed for India in the east and colonized them. Who said the Taino Arawak were Indians. They are Creoles. Indians came at the end of 1800 from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. They don't have the same face or hair. We know Indians a mile away.

[@MrMarcosema]

He looks scared.... very scared

[@mscliffhanger3885]

He's not scared..he's tired he's been travel non stop getting support for Guyana

[@frederick28tube]

very scared because Esequibo belongs to Venezuela

[@antising8834]

He is not scared, he already has his family abroad and he has an exit strategy to flee when it gets too hot.

[@tashasharma6535]

He is a demigod, how will he be scared of man.Bullies does be scared.They scare everyones with their big mouths.Maduro banking on Putin...and Putin lost more than half his soldiers by a tiny country soldiers

[@user-mj3ru2nv7q]

Scared?😂😂 you sound more lonely and haunted in your words than any of us. Picker boom and yuh done gone running for safety near Madubo.😅😅😅😅

[@dannyramnarain3858]

This man already move his family out from the country what kind of leader is this

[@mscliffhanger3885]

Yall don't tired with your lies? Smfh

[@fta7362]

How do you know that, was it your mother told you???

[@antising8834]

Irfraud Ali has already stolen enough money to live comfortably in Miami where his family is now.

[@tashasharma6535]

​@@antising8834That's good...he worked for, he should get lots more cause since he took office Guyana gdp is very high

[@sunitamosesesq]

He very much lives in Guyana with his family.