Venezuela's National Assembly Thursday passed a law creating a new region in the oil-rich Essequibo ... which is to be added to the country's official maps. The law establishes that a Governor ...

The dispute originates from a 19th-century map that attributed this region to Guyana, which was a British colonial possession at the time, instead of Venezuela. Venezuela had maintained former ...

Work on the bridge, which links Venezuela’s mainland to a military base, has caused a decades-old row over border lines in the Essequibo region to flare up again. Guyana Foreign Minister Hugh ...