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. Categories ...

The Essequibo River flows through Kurupukari crossing in Guyana on November 19, 2023. Venezuela has long claimed Guyana's Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals.

Venezuela approved a referendum to take over the neighboring oil-rich Essequibo region controlled by the sovereign nation of Guyana after a vote Sunday, according to election officials. The ...

The Essequibo region is sparsely populated, home to an estimated 125,000 people out of Guyana’s total 800,000. It covers about two-thirds of Guyana’s landmass.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is asking the country's state-owned companies to "immediately" begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana's Essequibo region, a territory ...

Venezuelans voted by a wide margin Sunday to approve the takeover of an oil-rich region in neighboring Guyana – the latest escalation in a long-running territorial dispute between the two ...

Essequibo is home to 125,000 of Guyana's 800,000 citizens. ... Guyana, a former British and Dutch colony, insists the Essequibo frontiers were determined by an arbitration panel in 1899.

Guyanese authorities have requested the United Nations Security Council to review Venezuela's territorial claims over the oil-rich Essequibo region, under the jurisdiction of the former British ...

A man in Caracas walks by a mural campaigning for a referendum to ask Venezuelans to consider annexing the Guyana-administered region of Essequibo, on November 28, 2023.

Hairdresser Kimtse Kimo Castello is adamant that the small town where he lives, near a tropical forest, lies in Guyana and not Venezuela, which claims it.

Venezuelans on Sunday for the first time elected a governor and other lawmakers for Essequibo, an oil-rich region that Venezuela has laid claim to even though it is widely recognized as being part ...