Between 2016 and 2025, at least 10 attacks against Guyana Defense Forces were carried out by armed Venezuelan groups ...

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

RESIDENTS across the Essequibo Coast turned out in strong numbers to participate in the National Clean-Up Campaign, an initiative spearheaded by President Dr.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 2nd, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Venezuela must not hold elections in Essequibo, as it has committed to doing on the 25th of May, the day before the celebration of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Venezuela’s ruling party has claimed victory in regional and parliamentary elections that were boycotted by the opposition.