The Latest Breaking News from Nicolás Maduro

The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela are scheduled to meet face-to-face as regional partners urgently seek to defuse a long-standing territorial dispute that has escalated after Venezuelans voted in a referendum to claim two-thirds of their small neighbor

Oil giant ExxonMobil says it will keep ramping up production in offshore Guyana despite the escalation of a territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela, which claims that oil-rich region as its own

The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela will meet this week to address an escalating dispute over the Essequibo region that is rich in oil and minerals

The unpopular leader is eyeing nationalist votes by stoking of tension over Guyana’s Essequibo region

A century-old territorial dispute is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela

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 country.

The U.S. Army carried out a joint aerial exercise with Guyana. Washington reiterated its support for the country

ExxonMobil and Chevron are both waiting to see what happens next for Guyana, as a dizzying set of competing incentives come into play.

A military helicopter carrying seven people has vanished near Guyana’s border with Venezuela

Guyana's president tells The Associated Press his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from a potential incursion by Venezuela, which has ordered its state-owned companies to explore and exploit oil and minerals in Guyana’s vast Essequibo region that it considers its own

Order from president Nicolás Maduro comes after referendum on whether Venezuela should claim sovereignty over the region