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The US Air Force has taken the unusual step of holding joint drills with Guyana as the United Nations scheduled an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss Venezuela’s threat to annex more than two-thirds of the oil-rich South American...

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Residents of the jungle region of Guyana, rich in oil and gold mines, respond to the threats being made by President Nicolás Maduro: ‘I don’t want to be Venezuelan, no way’

Neither Venezuela nor Guyana have militaries that are ready for a full-scale war – but that may not stop Nicolás Maduro from manufacturing a crisis.

The planned meeting comes after Venezuela threatened to annex the oil-rich territory of Esequibo currently in Guyana.

South America is at war as Venezuela threatens to forcefully take back the disputed Essequibo territory from Guyana, and the United States (US) is

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The UNSC discussed the row over oil-rich Essequibo between South American neighbours Venezuela and Guyana while their leaders traded barbs on social media.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Calls mounted Thursday for calm to prevail as Venezuela said it saw a provocation in joint US-Guyana military exercises and vowed to pursue the recovery of an oil-rich region both neighbors claim as their own.

“[…] The Caribbean has, since the 15th Century, been a region of imperial contest and a theatre for wars between European colonial and imperial powers, and then later for US colonial and imperial