Caracas, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) Aggravation of the territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana answers to the interest of the United States in stopping the changes carried out in Latin America and the Caribbean, after the Bolivarian Government assumed power in 1999.

According to Venezuelan journalist Eleazar Diaz Rangel, director of the private newspaper Ultimas Noticias, the purposes of the US State Department are clear enough and have reliable instruments in the US corporation Exxon Mobil and the Guyana's Government.

In his weekly column Los Domingos de Diaz Rangel (Diaz Rangel's Sundays), the journalist said the most revealing fact of the presence of foreign interests was the visit paid to Guyana in 2010 by David Goldwin, coordinator of International Energy Issues of the US State Department.

Then, it was published that Guyana appeared in a program called Initiative for energy management and training.

He said that Venezuelan Ambassador to that neighboring nation (2007-2012), Dario Mortandy, said recently that this was a plan by the transnational companies, influenced by the US State Department, which jeopardizes again our access to the Atlantic Ocean.

The fact is that after Goldwin's visit, there was a gradual US penetration in Guyana, and its current Government, led by David Granger, has become and instrument of the oil companies, specifically of Exxon Mobil, he asserted.

He also said that company received franchises in areas in dispute and is has become a solid support for the current Guyanese Government.

These policies and reactions are not by chance at all, he said, and recalled the efforts by the United States to finish Petrocaribe, called them to a meeting at the vice presidency in Washington, but they were not able to convince them with their replacement proposals.

Having failed in their attempts, few hours before the Summit in Panama, US President Barack Obama traveled to Jamaica to hold a meeting with the representatives of the Caribbean Community and they failed again in their attempts against Petrocaribe, as it was proved in Panama, he added.