The Latest Breaking News from Nicolás Maduro

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

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is ordering the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own

While a border crisis could be a welcome distraction for President Nicolás Maduro from domestic woes, it does not offer any solution to the crises that Venezuela is facing

The Maduro regime is threatening to destabilize the Caribbean in a bid for offshore oil reserves, in a move likely to invite back crippling US sanctions.