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.

President Irfaan Ali said late Friday that the government of the South American country is dedicating “enormous resources” to ...

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 ...

Venezuela and Guyana have agreed to a high-level meeting over the status of the disputed and oil-rich Essequibo region, following a flurry of diplomacy involving leaders of both countries as well ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, agreed Sunday to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating ...

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 ...

Guyana’s president Irfaan Ali told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from Venezuela.

In a television appearance this week, Maduro presented a map that showed Guyana’s 61,000-square-mile Esequibo region as part of Venezuela.The authoritarian socialist told a crowd of government ...

Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, signed into law the results of a referendum laying claim to two-thirds of neighboring Guyana; the move triggered 'fierce condemnation' from Guyana on Thursday.

The 61,600-square-mile area accounts for two-thirds of Guyana. Yet, Venezuela has always considered Essequibo as its own because the region was within its boundaries during the Spanish colonial ...

Venezuela and Guyana agreed not to use arms against each other in a first meeting to reduce tensions over the disputed Essequibo territory. The initial talks between the countries’ presidents, ...