Venezuelans on Sunday for the first time elected a governor and other lawmakers for Essequibo, an oil-rich region that ...

In Sunday’s election, President Nicolás Maduro has called to elect a governor of Essequibo — a region that actually belongs ...

InSight Crime spent a year analyzing how organized crime has penetrated Essequibo, the dense Amazon jungle region in Guyana claimed by Venezuela. Read the other chapters in the investigation here. The ...

A series of cross-border attacks on Guyanese troops, including three on May 15, points to a potential Venezuelan strategy of ...

InSight Crime spent a year analyzing how organized crime has penetrated Essequibo, the dense Amazon jungle region in Guyana claimed by Venezuela. The river is tranquil – a brown ribbon that ...

They found evidence that Guyana’s remote Essequibo region had become a far more significant cocaine transit area than previously imagined. *This article is part of a three-part investigation, “Is ...

I was hesitant to highlight this matter in the hope that it would have been addressed in due course by the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB). Much praise has been ushered for the transition and ...

Venezuela elected officials on Sunday for the first time for Essequibo region, an oil-rich territory that Caracas claims from ...

Venezuela’s ruling party has claimed victory in regional and parliamentary elections that were boycotted by the opposition.

That region was Essequibo, a 160,000-square-kilometre (62,000-square-mile) area rich with jungles, rivers and mountains, not to mention resources like oil and gold. “It always appeared as a ...