The Venezuelan army said the army raised its alert level after uncovering a U.S. plot seeking to fabricate an incident at waters the country is disputing with Guyana that would create a justification to invade the South American country.
Concretely, the document said the operation would take place at an ExxonMobil offshore platform and would develop in the Essequibo region, an area controlled by Guyana that Venezuela claims as its own.
