It is clear that the Venezuelans who came to cast their vote on December 3 in a referendum on the Essequibo region saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two Latin American countries
President Nicolàs Maduro has urged his Guyanese counterpart Irfaan Ali to resume direct dialogue over a long-standing territorial dispute over Essequibo. Venezuela has also accused the US of trying to militarize the resource-rich region, where ExxonMobil has been conducting oil drilling projects for years
A conversation with Eric Huntley, who along with his wife Jessica, pioneered Black literary publishing in twentieth-century Britain, and remains a committed activist to this day
Vijay Prashad explores what is behind the fueling the border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela: oil and imperialism
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