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As fallout surges from Venezuela’s election crisis, the region fears another mass exodus
4 months, 1 week ago

As fallout surges from Venezuela’s election crisis, the region fears another mass exodus

Associated Press  

LIMA, Peru — President Nicolás Maduro’s contested claim of victory in last month’s election not only threw Venezuela into uncertainty but also spread anxiety from neighboring Colombia to faraway Chile as the region braced for a new migration surge. “They’re now caught in uncertainty, deciding whether to leave their country and join relatives who have already left.” Wracked with uncertainty …

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US arrests a former Green Beret over the failed 2020 raid into Venezuela to remove Maduro
4 months, 3 weeks ago

US arrests a former Green Beret over the failed 2020 raid into Venezuela to remove Maduro

Associated Press  

CARACAS, Venezuela — A former U.S. Green Beret who in 2020 organized a failed cross-border raid of Venezuelan army deserters to remove President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested in New York on federal arms smuggling charges. A federal indictment unsealed this week in Tampa, Florida, accuses Jordan Goudreau and a Venezuelan partner, Yacsy Alvarez, of violating U.S. arms control laws …

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Opinion: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro could lose a landslide election. But will it matter?
5 months ago

Opinion: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro could lose a landslide election. But will it matter?

LA Times  

Opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia and opposition leader María Corina Machado parade through a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally this month in Valencia, Venezuela, on July 13. If Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, secures another term — which, given his opponent’s 25- to 30-point lead in the polls, would require massive fraud — even more Venezuelans will …

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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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Trump vs. Biden election and immigration: The president needs a "border emergency" policy to win in November.
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump vs. Biden election and immigration: The president needs a "border emergency" policy to win in November.

Slate  

On March 9, 2021, in a move that was little noted outside of those who study immigration professionally, the still-new Biden administration granted something called Temporary Protected Status to as many as 320,000 Venezuelan nationals in the United States. To be sure, the Biden administration’s decision to grant indefinite protection to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants was well-intentioned and …

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Guyana condemns Venezuela for pursuing annexation of disputed region
8 months, 3 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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Ex-Green Beret stands with Venezuelan coup plotter ahead of U.S. sentencing on terror charges
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ex-Green Beret stands with Venezuelan coup plotter ahead of U.S. sentencing on terror charges

Associated Press  

MIAMI — A U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela’s president is proudly standing with a former Venezuelan army general who pleaded guilty in New York on terrorism charges, describing his would-be comrade-in-arms as a patriot and dedicated family man worthy of a reduced prison sentence. Former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau had stayed mostly silent since a ragtag cadre of …

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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 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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Deported by US, arrested in Venezuela: One family’s saga highlights Biden’s migration challenge
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Deported by US, arrested in Venezuela: One family’s saga highlights Biden’s migration challenge

Associated Press  

MIAMI — Pedro Naranjo idolized his father growing up and followed him into the Venezuelan air force to fly helicopters. Now the two have been separated by an overstretched U.S. immigration system that has left the retired Gen. Pedro Naranjo in legal limbo in the U.S. His loyal son, a Venezuelan air force lieutenant, sits in a Venezuelan military prison …

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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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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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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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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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Guyana’s president says his country is preparing to defend itself from Venezuela over disputed area
1 year ago

Guyana’s president says his country is preparing to defend itself from Venezuela over disputed area

Associated Press  

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Guyana’s president told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from Venezuela, which has ordered its state-owned companies to explore and exploit oil and minerals in the vast Essequibo region, which Guyana considers its own. We’re building a regional response.” Ali spoke a day after Venezuelan …

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Guyana's president says it is preparing for a possible incursion by Venezuela into disputed area
1 year ago

Guyana's president says it is preparing for a possible incursion by Venezuela into disputed area

The Independent  

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Maduro orders the 'immediate' exploitation of oil, gas and mines in Guyana's Essequibo
1 year ago

Maduro orders the 'immediate' exploitation of oil, gas and mines in Guyana's Essequibo

The Independent  

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Venezuela claims large support for annexing oil-rich Guyana territory
1 year ago

Venezuela claims large support for annexing oil-rich Guyana territory

Al Jazeera  

In the referendum Venezuelan voters were asked whether they support establishing a state in Essequibo. The referendum result, announced on Monday, came after the International Court of Justice warned Caracas against “annexation” of the territory called Essequibo, which has long been ruled by Guyana. Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali said his government is working continuously to ensure the country’s borders …

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Venezuelans approve a referendum to claim sovereignty over a swathe of neighboring Guyana
1 year ago

Venezuelans approve a referendum to claim sovereignty over a swathe of neighboring Guyana

Associated Press  

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelans on Sunday approved a referendum called by the government of President Nicolás Maduro to claim sovereignty over an oil- and mineral-rich area of neighboring Guyana it argues was stolen when the border was drawn more than a century ago. He claimed the referendum had “very important level of participation.” Yet long lines typical of electoral events …

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Venezuelans approve referendum to claim territory in neighboring Guyana
1 year ago

Venezuelans approve referendum to claim territory in neighboring Guyana

NPR  

Venezuelans approve referendum to claim territory in neighboring Guyana Enlarge this image toggle caption Matias Delacroix/AP Matias Delacroix/AP CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelans on Sunday approved a referendum called by the government of President Nicolás Maduro to claim sovereignty over an oil- and mineral-rich piece of neighboring Guyana, the country's electoral authority announced. Latin America Venezuela to hold referendum upholding its …

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