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CARACAS, March 22, 2024 (AFP) – Venezuela’s parliament has approved a law creating a federal state in the disputed oil-rich area of Essequibo across the border in Guyana, which on Friday slammed a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty. Caracas has long laid claim to Essequibo, which makes up about two-thirds of Guyana’s territory, but started taking active steps to retrieve the land after massive offshore oil deposits were discovered there in 2015. Lawmakers unanimously […]
CARACAS, Dec 15, 2023 (AFP) – The presidents of Venezuela and Guyana pledged after direct talks on Thursday not to resort to force to settle a long-simmering — and recently reheated — territorial dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region, a joint statement said. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and Guyana’s Irfaan Ali shook hands after a two-hour meeting on the Caribbean island nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The two sides agreed that they “will not […]
By Barbara AGELVIS CARACAS (AFP) – The discovery of vast oil deposits is blamed for reigniting a decades-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that fast worsened as Guyana started granting licenses to multinationals to exploit crude in waters claimed by both countries. This is what we know about the showdown over the Essequibo region that has the world on edge. – How much oil in Essequibo? – The 160,000-square-kilometer (62,000-square-mile) territory has been administered […]
By Patrick FORT MANGO LANDING, Guyana, Dec 14, 2023 (AFP) – Robinson Flores, a Venezuelan who has been living in Essequibo for years, has no time for politicians fighting over the disputed oil-rich region run by Guyana. Life in this sleepy border village along the muddy Wenamu River is just fine, thank you, he says. And the flap that exploded in recent months as Venezuela lays claim to Essequibo is an unwelcome disruption. “Politicians do […]
By Barbara AGELVIS CARACAS, Dec 10, 2023 (AFP) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart, Irfaan Ali, will meet Thursday on their countries’ growing dispute over the oil-rich region of Essequibo, amid mounting international warnings against escalating the row. The meeting will be held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, according to the Caribbean country’s Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had also been invited at […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP) — The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana was started by a disgruntled pupil angry at having her mobile phone confiscated, a government source told AFP on Tuesday. An official police report confirmed that “a female student is suspected of having set the devastating fire because her cellular phone was taken away.” The official said the teenage pupil had admitted to the arson attack and was under […]
By Denis CHABROL Agence France-Presse GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP) — At least 19 youths were killed in a schoolgirls’ dormitory blaze in Guyana, officials said Monday, with anger growing in the tiny South American country over the tragedy. It is not yet known how the fire started Sunday in a dormitory housing girls aged 11-12 and 16-17, a person who helped the emergency services said under condition of anonymity. The building was gutted by the inferno. […]
