By Osmary Hernández, Fernando Almánzar and Mia Alberti, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela’s president ordered the creation of a new state called “Guayana Esequiba” on Tuesday, following a ...

Get concise answers to your questions. Try Ask The Post AI. In a television appearance this week, Maduro presented a map that showed Guyana’s 61,000-square-mile Esequibo region as part of Venezuela.

Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali responds after Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro announced his vision for a “new map and state” that includes a disputed territory in Guyana’s ...

The area in question, the densely forested and oil-rich Essequibo region, amounts to about two-thirds of Guyana’s national territory. Venezuela has long claimed the land and dismisses an 1899 ...

Guyana has called the move a step towards annexation and an “existential threat.” Talking to legislators on Tuesday, President Nicolás Maduro showed a “new map” of Venezuela including the ...