Guyana is warning that anyone living in the South American country who participates in upcoming elections organized by ...

Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.

Venezuelans voted by a wide margin Sunday to approve the takeover of an oil-rich region in neighboring Guyana – the latest ... that state into the map of Venezuelan territory.” ...

FILE - A boy drives a motorcycle in front of a mural of the Venezuelan map with the Essequibo territory ... minerals and oil that is in dispute with Guyana. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File ...

Venezuelans who turned out to vote in a referendum on the status of a disputed oil-rich territory long controlled by Guyana ... map of Venezuelan territory". Electoral officials said 95.9% of ...

The area in question, the densely forested and oil-rich Essequibo region, amounts to about two-thirds of Guyana’s national ... Maduro showed a “new map” of Venezuela including the disputed ...

On world maps, the western region of Guyana is called Essequibo, Esequibo or Guayana Esequiba. In Venezuelan school textbooks, it is hatched in red and marked "Zona en Reclamación" or "zone in ...