Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela, Dr Odeen Ishmael has found hope in the statement by Chairman of Venezuela’s Communist Party Jeronimo Carerra that the government of President Hugo Chavez could eliminate, once and for all, Venezuela’s “absurd claim” to five-eighths of Guyana’s territory.
In a telephone interview, Dr Ishmael told Stabroek News that he based his hope on that fact that the statement was made by one of Chavez’s allies, who wrote in the Caracas weekly La Raz
