Guyana has pledged to crack down on gold smuggled across the border from neighboring Venezuela at the urging of the U.S.

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.

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 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.

Venezuela continues to build up military infrastructure and hardware close to the border with Guyana as President Nicolas Maduro and his supporters scale up their threats to annex an oil-rich ...

Venezuela and Guyana are currently involved in a border dispute over the Essequibo, a sparsely populated region the size of Florida with vast oil deposits off its shores.

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 ...

When Guyana gained independence from Britain in 1966, its new government agreed with Venezuela that a joint border commission would resolve the dispute. But the sides did not reach an understanding.

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 ...

Venezuela’s territorial claim has been made against leftists and by leftists. It’s been about colonialism, nationalism, Cold War and oil, and it’s complicating U.S. foreign policy.

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, ...

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 ...