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 …
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, …
