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Venezuelan Border Dispute

Venezuelan Border Dispute. By, Ashlyn Maurer, Nick Ricciardi, and Maria Van Buskirk. What is it?. Dispute over the boundary between Venezuela and Guyana Grew more important after the discovery of gold in the disputed area

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Venezuelan Border Dispute

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  1. Venezuelan Border Dispute By, Ashlyn Maurer, Nick Ricciardi, and Maria Van Buskirk

  2. What is it? • Dispute over the boundary between Venezuela and Guyana • Grew more important after the discovery of gold in the disputed area • Venezuela finally sought aid from the United States and broke relations with Great Britain

  3. How did the US get involved? • U.S. pressured Great Britain to participate in arbitration of the boundary dispute. • U.S. officials even went as far as threatening war . • Richard Olney, protested against the enlargement of British Guyana at the expense of Venezuela. • This meant that the British had already violated the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 • Britain agreed to let an international tribunal arbitrate the boundary in 1897

  4. What where the U.S.Motives? • Grover Cleveland, who was serving a second term as President, realized that he was losing popularity among workers everywhere in the country. He and his secretary of State, Richard Olney, decided to adopt a foreign policy and help Venezuela to divert attention from their own country’s problems. • Get the British out of the Western Hemisphere

  5. Did they justify their motives? • The U.S. justified their motives by using the Monroe Doctrine to demand arbitration (legal technique for resolving a dispute outside of court) • This use of the Monroe Doctrine helped to enforce it in the Western Hemisphere and push the British out, which was one of their motives for getting involved.

  6. Superman • The United States acted as superman as opposed to a mafia don. • Assisted Venezuela in claiming their land. • Helped Venezuela more then it benefited the United States. • They substantially assisted in moving the British out of the land that was not rightfully theirs and for this Venezuela was very thankful.

  7. Reaction of local population • The local population was happy with the U.S. help because it helped Venezuela gain land even though the British still had some control. 

  8. Final Result • In 1899, 94% of the disputed territory to British Guyana. Venezuela got only the mouth of the Orinoco River and a short stretch of the Atlantic coastline. • Venezuela was unhappy with the decision, a commission surveyed a new border and both sides accepted the boundary in 1905, thus creating the Schomburgk Line

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  10. Work Sited • http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter84.html • http://www.historycentral.com/Industrialage/BorderDispute.html • http://countrystudies.us/guyana/8.htm • http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/venezuela_boundary_dispute.jsp • http://merln.ndu.edu/imguploaded/americamap.jpg

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