Internationally, the NUG has self-claimed to be the sole legitimate government representing Myanmar and has demanded diplomatic recognition from sovereign governments without success.īy the last quarter of 2021, all members of the NUG had left Myanmar and gone into exile. The NUG announced the establishment of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) in May and declared a “people’s defensive war” against the military government in September. The ruling military junta’s State Administration Council (SAC) promptly declared the NUG illegal and a terrorist organization. The Jurassic rift resulted in the “Hispanic Corridor” that permitted Tethyan and Pacific marine faunas to mix at a time when the Gulf of Mexico underwent continental sedimentation.Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative The new players: The National Unity Government and the People’s Defense Forceįollowing the February 1 coup last year, a group of members of parliament elected in 2020 formed the National Unity Government (NUG) on April 16. At Lake Maracaibo the Jurassic rift system eventually overlaps the Triassic rifts. The Jurassic rift trend followed along the separation between Yucatan and northern South America. The Triassic component focused along the western portions of the Gulf of Mexico continuing into eastern Mexico and western South America. Mesozoic rifling closely followed either the Precambrian trends or the late Paleozoic orogenic belt. The general trend of the system is northeast-southwest and essentially parallels the Guayana craton and West African and eastern North American cratons. During the late Paleozoic, renewed orogenic activity, associated with the Gondwana-Laurentia suture, affected large segments of west central Pangea. Similar aged orogenies in the Appalachians are compared. A second system is observed along West Africa extending from the High Atlas to the Mauritanides and Rockelides. Along the northern South American margin and Yucatan a paleo northeast trending Pan-African aged fold belt is documented. Two late Precambrian orogenic belts are observed in west central Pangea. The prebreakup analysis focuses attention on the Precambrian, early Paleozoic, and late Paleozoic tectonic events affecting the region and assumes a Pindell fit. A review of the prebreakup geology of west central Pangea, comprising northern South America, the Gulf of Mexico, and West Africa, combined with a study of the Mesozoic rift trends of the region confirms a relation between the rift systems and the underlying older grain of deformation.