Kaieteur News – A third Guyanese fishing vessel, ‘Miss Annie,’ bearing registration number GR972360 and its seven-man Guyanese crew were on Monday detained by the Venezuelan Military.
According to a tweet by Zona Operativa de Defensa Integral 61 (ZODI), of Delta Amacuro, a faction of the Venezuelan National Armed Guards (FANB), the vessel was illegally fishing in Venezuelan Waters.ZODI 61 reported that the vessel was intercepted during a river patrol by the FANB in Mariusa, Tucupita, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela.
Both the vessel and the seven-crew members are currently being held by the National Guard and their 1,200 kilograms fish catch, which was on board the vessel, has been seized.
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This is taken right out of the Chinese playbook unfolding in the South China Sea. Constant provocations with the aim to intimidate you and finally accept their hegemony. Where are all those non-aligned friends defending Guyana? What’s the position of Cuba? At least the US and the French ambassador have expressed full support of Guyana’s position. True friends are there for you when you are in trouble, right?
Now that the OAC is involved let us see what happens.