THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — An oil-fueled border fight shaped by imperial mapmaking, Cold War diplomacy and competing claims to one of South America’s richest regions reached its climax in The Hague on Monday, where Venezuela urged the world’s highest court not to preserve what it sees as a colonial-era land grab more than a century in the making.
Guyana wants judges at the International Court of Justice to preserve a border drawn in 1899, a decision that left it with control over the sprawling Essequibo region, home to huge oil reserves and most of the country’s landmass. Venezuela wants something very different. Its position is that the old arbitration can no longer be treated as the foundation of the dispute because a later agreement signed in 1966 shifted the process toward negotiations and a mutually acceptable political settlement.
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