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.

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.

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

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 ...

The US shook the OAS by threatening to withdraw from the organization, citing its “failure” to address the crisis in ...

Between 2016 and 2025, at least 10 attacks against Guyana Defense Forces were carried out by armed Venezuelan groups ...

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

Venezuela's Bolivarian regime has built a bridge reaffirming its sovereignty claims over Guyana Essequiba. The provisional structure will allow the arrival of heavier machinery for the definitive ...

Dock workers on the shores of the Essequibo River in Parika, Guyana. Most countries and the 125,000 people who live in Essequibo say it belongs to Guyana, not Venezuela.

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 ...