Earlier this week, Guyana commemorated the 123rd anniversary of the 1899 Arbitral Award, which settled a land boundary dispute which had existed between British Guiana (now Guyana) and Venezuela. A week prior, Venezuela released a statement alleging that Guyana’s pursuit of oil and gas exploration and development offshore, amounts to an attempt to “seize the … Continue reading 123 years after settlement of boundary, Venezuela’s land grab aspirations now being driven by oil