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Between 2016 and 2025, at least 10 attacks against Guyana Defense Forces were carried out by armed Venezuelan groups ...
RESIDENTS across the Essequibo Coast turned out in strong numbers to participate in the National Clean-Up Campaign, an initiative spearheaded by President Dr.
A series of cross-border attacks on Guyanese troops, including three on May 15, points to a potential Venezuelan strategy of ...
THE community of Queenstown, Region Two, has again been plunged into mourning following the death of another resident, Kevin ...
InSight Crime spent a year analyzing how organized crime has penetrated Essequibo, the dense Amazon jungle region in Guyana claimed by Venezuela. Read the other chapters in the investigation here. The ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...