Given that Venezuela has rejected the UN’s highest court’s (the ICJ’s) ruling to refrain from holding an election in Essequibo and the extensive mobilization of the Venezuelan people’s ...

Guyana's National Toshaos’ Council (NTC), representing the country's Indigenous Peoples, has rejected Venezuela's claims of holding elections in the disputed Essequibo region on May 25 ...

Rice farmers along the Essequibo Coast continue to voice frustration ... due to persistent flooding caused by a blocked channel in Lima. “That channel has been blocked for three months.

The dispute was reignited in 2015 when US oil giant Exxon Mobil found oil deposits off the coast of Essequibo, which is equivalent to two-thirds of Guyana. The Venezuelan state argues that the ...

Armed men in civilian clothing carried out three separate attacks on troops conducting patrols on the Cuyuni River in the disputed Essequibo region, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said.

Speaking during a televised address on Tuesday, Padrino López claimed that plotters aim to turn the Florida-sized Essequibo into a “spoil of war” for U.S. interests, using regime change as ...

Under the Arbitral Award, Guyana has held control for over 100 years, but Venezuela had announced that it intends to hold elections in Essequibo which it claims as a territory of its own.

In a significant escalation of the longstanding territorial dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region made famous by a string of ExxonMobil discoveries, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said on ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s government on Friday rejected a ruling from the United Nations’ top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials ...