Guyana

They do not have refugee status in the South American country and are unable to renounce their asylum application to apply for permanent residency, according to organizations

The acquisition of Hess would add a major oil field in Guyana, but it will require the approval of Exxon Mobil and a Chinese national oil company

The company said the concessions were granted by Guyana and that it is committed to its operations despite the tensions with Venezuela. Previous attempts to explore for oil and gas in that area have failed

The U.S. is pledging to help Guyana buy new aircraft, helicopters, a fleet of military drones and, for the first time, radar technology

A Defense official said the U.S. would help Guyana create a more organized and better equipped military in coming months

It is the latest in mounting tensions between Venezuela and the former British colony

Venezuela moves troops in the area even as the neighboring country denies ‘plans for offensive action’

Some 35,000 Venezuelans are trying to make their way in this small neighboring country, which is experiencing an oil boom. Guyana maintains a dispute with the Maduro administration over the Essequibo region

Nicolás Maduro and Mohamed Irfaan Ali met following two weeks of tension over the oil and mineral rich region, which Caracas claims following a referendum

The statement was issued shortly before Guyanese President Irfaan Ali and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro met on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent

The country that Venezuela is confronting over the Essequibo region registers the highest economic growth in the world thanks to the discovery of crude oil deposits

Maduro proposed that companies operating in the vast Essequibo region in Guyana should withdraw their operations within three months

The country has lost more than 500,000 kilometers since its foundation in international rulings or as a consequence of an erratic diplomatic strategy

The Venezuelan government is failing to comply with several points of the Barbados electoral agreement reached two months ago with the opposition

Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed Washington’s support for Guyana’s sovereignty in a conversation with the country’s president, Mohamed Irfaan Ali

As Guyana prepares to take the dispute to the United Nations Security Council, Venezuelan authorities have issued arrest warrants for several close allies of the opposition leader

Irfaan Ali spoke a day after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he would “immediately” grant operating licenses for exploration and exploitation in Essequibo region

Via a law announced Tuesday, Venezuela will create a new province or state in the disputed territory, having already appointed a single provisional authority: Major-General Alexis Rodríguez Cabello

A scenario of intensifying conflict with Guyana over the contested area opens the door to declaring a state of emergency that would allow Nicolás Maduro’s government to postpone the 2024 vote

Officials argue the oil- and mineral-rich territory was stolen when the border was drawn more than a century ago. Guyana has characterized the referendum as a step toward annexation

From 2015 to 2018, the rate rose from 3.8 to 9.3 per 100,000 inhabitants; men between the ages of 30 and 64 and youths between 15 and 24 are the most at risk

The meeting has given Nicolás Maduro a diplomatic boost, but Chile and Uruguay were quick to distance themselves from Lula’s comments about the crisis in the country

Investigators allege she ignited the blaze at Mahdia Secondary School on May 21 in anger with the administrator over the confiscation of her mobile telephone