By Kadasi Ceres Venezuela’s heightened aggression towards Guyana over its Essequibo claims also corresponds to the substantial discovery of oil in the Stabroek Block, a 26,000 km2 area adjacent to the Essequibo coastline, in 2015. Oil and gas exploration in this ‘super-basin’ was led by the US-based Exxon Mobil, whose assets in Venezuela had been nationalised in 2007 as the Chavez government implemented its nationalist anti-imperialist political…
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