Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has intensified rhetoric over a territorial claim to the Essequibo, which makes up more ...

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is escalating territorial threats over Guyana’s Essequibo region ahead of Guyana’s September 1 ...

The Essequibo region has long been denoted on Venezuelan maps as a “reclamation zone”. The region covers 160.000 sq kilometers, is rich in natural resources and is equivalent to two thirds of ...

The more than century-long dispute over the resource-rich Essequibo region in Guyana has intensified. Venezuela’s autocratic President Nicolas Maduro asserts, in one of the few issues it agrees ...

Essequibo is larger than Greece and rich in minerals. It also gives access to an area of the Atlantic where energy giant ExxonMobil discovered oil in commercial quantities in 2015, drawing the ...

Maduro said he would “immediately” proceed “to grant operating licenses for the exploration and exploitation of oil, gas and mines in the entire area of our Essequibo.” He also ordered the ...

Chairman of the Special Commission for the Defense of Guyana Essequibo Hermann Escarra, stands next to Venezuela's new map that includes the Essequibo territory, a swath of land that is ...

She insisted that the Essequibo is a strategic and fundamental part of the country, therefore, after this ICJ ruling, the country must summon expert jurists to defend sovereignty.

Essequibo need proper things not second hand stuff. Mr. President, you need to lay out long term five or ten year viable plans which would see Essequibo competing with the capital.

A colonial-era dispute The standing borders of the Essequibo date to an 1899 ruling by an international tribune in Paris, which granted what was then known as British Guiana most of the land ...

Essequibo delivered a dominant performance yesterday to defeat the Select XI by 114 runs in their final match of the GCB U15 Inter-County competition at Lusignan. The rain-affected encounter was ...

The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana said Thursday that they would not use force against each other amid a dispute over an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land and agreed to create a joint commission to ...