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April 28, 2021   Northern South America is heating up, and not just because of the massive oil fields being discovered offshore Guyana since May 2015. Provocative Moves On January 7, 2021, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro launched a series of saber-rattling measures against neighboring Guyana, most notably issuing Decree No. 4.415, which claimed exclusive rights in the waters and seabed extending 200 nautical miles off the Orinoco Delta. The decree created a strategic zone, the “Territory for the Development of the Atlantic Façade,” that abuts Guyana’s maritime space northwest of ...

Saber-rattling and high stakes in Guyana’s geopolitical neighborhood Click to read this article in English Source: Adobe Photo Stock On January 7, 2021—one day after insurrectionist rumblings shook Washington, D.C.—Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro engaged in some saber-rattling of his own with the issuing of Decree No. 4.415, which claimed exclusive Venezuelan sovereignty over the waters and seabed off of Guyana’s coast, west of the Essequibo River. Maduro’s decree created a strategic zone called the “Territory for the Development of the Atlantic Façade,” which extends 200 ...

Article by Social Share Georgetown – President Irfaan Ali says the government has outlined a strategy to provide psychological, moral and other support to the families of the fishermen illegally detained by Venezuela. He said the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security would be meeting with the families soon in this regard. Giving the nation an update, over the weekend, on the government’s position on Venezuela’s continuing aggression against Guyana, Ali said he had instructed army Chief of Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess to lead a delegation to meet the families of the fishe...

Venezuela's border dispute with Guyana just got even testier Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald Jan. 28—A longstanding, high-stakes border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela has gotten even testier, with the United States and the Organization of American States stepping into the fray. OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro is condemning what he calls the illegal detention of two Guyanese-registered fishing vessels and their crew by "the Venezuelan dictatorship" in Guyana's exclusive economic zone. "The General Secretariat demands that the Guyanese citizens are released promp...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC)— Twelve Guyanese fishermen detained in Venezuela for the last five...