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Majority Of Venezuelans Vote To Annex Oil-Rich Region Of Guyana As previewed last week, on Sunday Venezuela would hold a referendum whether Maduro's socialist banana republic should annex the vast majority of its oil-rich neighbor, Guyana (because Venezuela doesn't have enough domestic issues to deal with, it may as well also invade a sovereign nation and start a war). And, as expected, an

The idea was rejected by more than three-fourths of voters in the chunk of unincorporated territory that city officials wanted to add, according to unofficial final returns. That scuttled the proposal, even though voters in the current city were overwhelmingly in favor. To achieve passage, the measure needed to get support from separate simple majorities in the existing city and the

Annexation proponents hailed yesterday’s unanimous vote from the Mobile City Council to allow a referendum on annexing territory west of the city as historic. For opponents of annexation, though, it was viewed as a sellout: the city’s three Black councilmembers voted in favor of annexation, a reversal from 2019. Opponents of annexation remain concerned that the proposal will dilute Black

Mobile is now the second-largest city in Alabama following a special election Tuesday, surpassing Birmingham in population for the first time in 123 years. The outcome of the annexation vote resulted in 19,789 new residents who will almost immediately come into the city, and push the city’s population from 184,952 to 204,689 residents. The number of new residents coming into Mobile equates to