Venezuelans on Sunday for the first time elected a governor and other lawmakers for Essequibo, an oil-rich region that ...

The area is currently administered by Guyana and claimed by Venezuela in a long-standing dispute being mediated by the ...

But the rapid succession of assaults has fueled mounting fears that the regime of Nicolás Maduro is using criminal proxies to ...

They found evidence that Guyana’s remote Essequibo region had become a far more significant cocaine transit area than previously imagined. *This article is part of a three-part investigation, “Is ...

THE community of Queenstown, Region Two, has again been plunged into mourning following the death of another resident, Kevin Bacchus, who lost control of the ...

InSight Crime spent a year analyzing how organized crime has penetrated Essequibo, the dense Amazon jungle region in Guyana claimed by Venezuela. The river is tranquil – a brown ribbon that ...

Venezuelan organized crime has taken root in the Essequibo region as Venezuela escalates claims to this Guyanese territory.

A series of cross-border attacks on Guyanese troops, including three on May 15, points to a potential Venezuelan strategy of ...

In Sunday’s election, President Nicolás Maduro has called to elect a governor of Essequibo — a region that actually belongs to neighboring Guyana. By Genevieve Glatsky On Sunday, Venezuela ...

That region was Essequibo, a 160,000-square-kilometre (62,000-square-mile) area rich with jungles, rivers and mountains, not to mention resources like oil and gold. “It always appeared as a ...