Putin pal Maduro plots WAR in US’s backyard as Venezuela feared to invade Guyana in hunt for oil & could draw in America

AMERICA could be drawn into war as Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro looks poised to invade Guyana.

Maduro – a good friend of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin – has ambitions to seize the oil supplies in the mineral-rich Essequibo region.

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Venezuela is now pointing its military firmly at its smaller and militarily weaker neighbour Guyana.

It is a regional conflict that could explode right in the US’s backyard, with fears such a dispute could trigger an intervention by Washington.

Maduro is a figure in Putin’s tinpot empire of dictators and despots who want to attempt to unsettle the global order.

He has said he wants the “peaceful rescue” of the region which he described as “de facto occupied by the British Empire”.

And now he has ordered his state-run oil company PDVSA to draw up maps for drilling in the region.

Maduro is also reported to have…