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Guyana condemns Venezuela for signing into law a referendum approving annexation of disputed region
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Guyana condemns Venezuela for signing into law a referendum approving annexation of disputed region

Associated Press  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s move to sign into law the results of a recent referendum laying claim to two-thirds of Guyana triggered fierce condemnation Thursday from the neighboring South American country’s government. Even so, Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs vowed not to yield any land to Venezuela and called the move targeting Guyana’s western Essequibo region an …

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Guyana condemns Venezuela for pursuing annexation of disputed region
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Guyana condemns Venezuela for pursuing annexation of disputed region

LA Times  

A boy in Caracas, Venezuela, drives a motorcycle in front of a map of Venezuela that includes the disputed Essequibo territory. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s move to sign into law the results of a recent referendum laying claim to two-thirds of Guyana triggered fierce condemnation this week from the neighboring South American country’s government. Even so, Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign …

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Guyana says Venezuela’s military is on the move again near their joint border
10 months, 1 week ago

Guyana says Venezuela’s military is on the move again near their joint border

Associated Press  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana’s government said Saturday that it has satellite imagery evidence from friendly western allies showing Venezuelan military movements near the South American country’s eastern border with Guyana. Todd said he had raised the issue with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil at a joint commission meeting in Brazil last month noting that “there is some amount of inconsistencies …

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ExxonMobil to explore for oil and gas in offshore area under dispute by Guyana and Venezuela
10 months, 2 weeks ago

ExxonMobil to explore for oil and gas in offshore area under dispute by Guyana and Venezuela

The Independent  

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ExxonMobil to explore for oil and gas in offshore area under dispute by Guyana and Venezuela
10 months, 2 weeks ago

ExxonMobil to explore for oil and gas in offshore area under dispute by Guyana and Venezuela

Associated Press  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — ExxonMobil said it plans to explore for oil and gas in a disputed area off South America’s coast where the Venezuelan military had previously expelled two U.S. oil companies. Robert Persaud, Guyana’s foreign secretary, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that ExxonMobil has every right to work in that region “because it is within established Guyana waters …

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Guyana rejects quest for US military base as territorial dispute with Venezuela deepens
11 months, 1 week ago

Guyana rejects quest for US military base as territorial dispute with Venezuela deepens

The Independent  

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Fears simmer in Essequibo region as Venezuela eyes the disputed territory
11 months, 1 week ago

Fears simmer in Essequibo region as Venezuela eyes the disputed territory

Al Jazeera  

Essequibo residents express anxiety as Venezuela advances its claims over the region, largely seen as part of Guyana. “Everyone else stayed away since we heard about the Venezuela referendum.” Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali has sought to quell those fears, though. Stay, guard it.” Cross-border relations have remained taut, despite a December 14 agreement between Guyana and Venezuela “not to …

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Brazil urges calm as Venezuela-Guyana border tension rises over Essequibo
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Brazil urges calm as Venezuela-Guyana border tension rises over Essequibo

Al Jazeera  

A British warship arrives for defence exercises with Guyana as Venezuela launches war games near contested region. Brazil has called for “restraint” as tensions flared in a territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana, with Caracas launching a major military exercise near the contested, oil-rich Essequibo region. “The Brazilian government believes military demonstrations of support to either party should be avoided …

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A British warship arrives in Guyana as tensions heat up in border dispute with Venezuela
11 months, 3 weeks ago

A British warship arrives in Guyana as tensions heat up in border dispute with Venezuela

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — A British warship arrived in Guyana on Friday afternoon amid rising tensions from a border dispute between the former British colony and Venezuela. Brazil’s statement called on Guyana and Venezuela to stay true to the Argyle Declaration, an agreement signed earlier this month in which their leaders said they would solve the border dispute through nonviolent means. …

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Venezuela will hold military exercises off its shores as a British warship heads to Guyana
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Venezuela will hold military exercises off its shores as a British warship heads to Guyana

Associated Press  

BOGOTA, Colombia — President Nicolás Maduro ordered Venezuela’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom sent a warship toward Guyana’s territorial waters as the South American neighbors dispute a large border region. In a nationally televised address Thursday, Maduro said that 6,000 Venezuelan troops — including air and naval forces — will conduct …

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Venezuela plans military exercises in Caribbean as a British warship heads to Guyana
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Venezuela plans military exercises in Caribbean as a British warship heads to Guyana

NPR  

Venezuela plans military exercises in Caribbean as a British warship heads to Guyana Enlarge this image toggle caption Matias Delacroix/AP Matias Delacroix/AP BOGOTA, Colombia — President Nicolás Maduro ordered Venezuela's armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom sent a warship toward Guyana's territorial waters as the South American neighbors dispute a large border …

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Venezuela and Guyana agree not to use force in Essequibo dispute
1 year ago

Venezuela and Guyana agree not to use force in Essequibo dispute

Al Jazeera  

Leaders hold tense talks after Venezuela organised referendum to claim oil-rich territory that makes up two-thirds of Guyana. Venezuela and Guyana have agreed not to resort to force to settle a territorial dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region after a tense meeting between the two countries’ leaders in the Caribbean. Guyanese President Irfaan Ali and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro agreed …

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Guyana and Venezuela agree to refrain from using force, but fail to resolve territorial dispute
1 year ago

Guyana and Venezuela agree to refrain from using force, but fail to resolve territorial dispute

Associated Press  

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela promised in a tense meeting Thursday that neither side would use threats or force against the other, but failed to reach agreement on how to address a bitter dispute over a vast border region rich with oil and minerals that has concerned many in the region. “All of this belongs …

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Guyana and Venezuela leaders to meet face-to-face as region pushes to defuse territorial dispute
1 year ago

Guyana and Venezuela leaders to meet face-to-face as region pushes to defuse territorial dispute

The Independent  

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ExxonMobil says it will stay in Guyana for the long term despite territorial dispute with Venezuela
1 year ago

ExxonMobil says it will stay in Guyana for the long term despite territorial dispute with Venezuela

The Independent  

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Leaders of Guyana and Venezuela to meet this week as region worries over their territorial dispute
1 year ago

Leaders of Guyana and Venezuela to meet this week as region worries over their territorial dispute

Associated Press  

CARACAS, Venezuela — The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela have expressed their intentions to cooperate as they prepare to meet this week to address an escalating dispute over a region rich in oil and minerals. In a letter Monday to Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which will host the high-level meeting on Thursday, Maduro said …

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Guyana agreed to talks with Venezuela over territorial dispute under pressure from Brazil, others
1 year ago

Guyana agreed to talks with Venezuela over territorial dispute under pressure from Brazil, others

Associated Press  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, agreed Sunday to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating territorial dispute. Even as troops mass on both sides of the shared Venezuela-Guyana border, Guyana President Irfaan Ali said Sunday that his country will meet on the Eastern Caribbean island nation of …

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Leaders of Venezuela and Guyana to meet amid border dispute
1 year ago

Leaders of Venezuela and Guyana to meet amid border dispute

Al Jazeera  

The planned meeting comes after Venezuela threatened to annex the oil-rich territory of Esequibo currently in Guyana. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro will meet Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali amid a territorial dispute between the two countries, according to a letter from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. Tensions have been mounting between Venezuela and Guyana in recent …

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Tensions are soaring between Guyana and Venezuela over a territorial dispute. Here’s what to know
1 year ago

Tensions are soaring between Guyana and Venezuela over a territorial dispute. Here’s what to know

Associated Press  

CARACAS, Venezuela — A century-old territorial dispute deepened by the discovery of oil is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. Venezuelan lawmaker Diosdado Cabello holds the new map of Venezuela with the Essequibo territory, a large swath of land that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela, during a session at the National Assembly in Caracas, …

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UN takes no immediate action at emergency meeting on Guyana-Venezuela dispute over oil-rich region
1 year ago

UN takes no immediate action at emergency meeting on Guyana-Venezuela dispute over oil-rich region

The Independent  

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Will Russia-backed Venezuela start a war in South America? | Defence in Depth
1 year ago

Will Russia-backed Venezuela start a war in South America? | Defence in Depth

The Telegraph  

On Sunday, Venezuela held a referendum on what it says are its rights to a potentially oil-rich territory that is the subject of a border dispute with neighbouring Guyana. An 1889 ruling that said the Essequibo region was part of Guyana has periodically but repeatedly, depending on the political mood of the time, been dismissed by authorities in Venezuela’s capital, …

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Helicopter carrying 5 senior Guyana military officials is missing near tense border with Venezuela
1 year ago

Helicopter carrying 5 senior Guyana military officials is missing near tense border with Venezuela

The Independent  

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Helicopter with senior Guyana military officials goes missing near Venezuela border
1 year ago

Helicopter with senior Guyana military officials goes missing near Venezuela border

LA Times  

A map of Venezuela incorporates Guyana’s Essequibo territory, which Caracas claims as its own. Khan told reporters late Wednesday that Guyana’s Defense Force lost contact with the brand-new Bell 412 EPI aircraft after it took off from the Olive Creek settlement in western Guyana following a refueling stop. The aircraft’s disappearance about 30 miles east of Venezuela’s border comes as …

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US throws weight behind Guyana in territorial dispute with Venezuela
1 year ago

US throws weight behind Guyana in territorial dispute with Venezuela

Al Jazeera  

Top US diplomat Blinken reaffirms support for Guyana’s sovereignty as Venezuela threatens to annex its Essequibo region. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed Washington’s position that Guyana has full sovereignty over its 159,500sq km Essequibo region, in a call with Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali late on Wednesday. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday called for a bill to create …

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