Guyana is perhaps best-known in the United States as the site of the 1978 murder-suicide of more than 900 people linked to the California-based Peoples Temple cult and its wayward leader, Jim Jones.

The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana said Thursday that they would not use force against each other amid a dispute over an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land and agreed to create a joint commission to ...

In the execution of my duties and my visits to border communities, I have personally witnessed Venezuelan migrants and the embarrassment, the shame, the ...

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

Venezuela says Guyana does not have the right to grant concessions for drilling in the offshore reserves and has called Guyana a tool of ExxonMobil. “ExxonMobil owns the government of Guyana.

Venezuela and neighboring Guyana are at loggerheads over Venezuela staking a claim on more than half of Guyana's oil-rich territory. On Sunday, Venezuela will hold a referendum to uphold its claim.

Guyana has long governed the territory, but Venezuela also claims sovereignty over it, citing maps drawn in colonial times. Last year, Maduro expressed a sudden enthusiasm for seizing Essequibo ...

Guyana asserts that the current borders established in 1899 by an international arbitration tribunal during its British colonial era should remain in force. Conversely, Venezuela contends that the ...

Despite Maduro's saber-rattling last year, Venezuela never invaded Guyana's Essequibo. But regional leaders must remain vigilant. The post Latin America Can't Let Its Guard Down on Venezuela ...

Guyana's National Toshaos’ Council (NTC), representing the country's Indigenous Peoples, has rejected Venezuela's claims of holding elections in the disputed Essequibo region on May 25, 2025, as ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a news conference with Guyanese President Mohamed Irfaan Ali in Georgetown, Guyana, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Pool photo via AP ...

The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana said Thursday that they would not use force against each other amid a dispute over an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land and agreed to create a joint commission to ...