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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Venezuela has laid claim to Essequibo, dating back to the Spanish colonial period and has contested the border set by international arbitrators in 1899, during Guyana's time as a British colony.

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 ...

Following the vote, Maduro unveiled an expansive blueprint for a new Venezuelan state of Essequibo, ordered Venezuela’s state energy and mineral concerns to begin preparations to work there, and ...

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.

OTIS: In this one, a Venezuelan singer insists that Essequibo is ours. A jungle region nearly the size of Florida, Essequibo makes up the western two-thirds of Guyana, a former British colony.

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.