The disputed area claimed by #Venezuela, known as the #Essequibo or #GuayanaEsequiba, makes up 3/4 of #Guyana's total area (based on current control), but less than 1/3 of its population. The seas off its coast contain major oil resources.

#geography #geopolitics #geographyteacher #SouthAmerica #Caribbean #borders #borderstudies #internationallaw #disputedterritory #borders #geography #worldcourt #ICJ

RT @SOSOrinoco: @DrMohamedIrfaa1 @NicolasMaduro #Venezuela & #Guyana are in a dispute over the #Essequibo but sadly both have a shameful ENVIRONMENTAL record in one of the world's most BIODIVERSE regions:
‼️ @DrMohamedIrfaa1 🇬🇾 & @NicolasMaduro 🇻🇪 allow illegal #BloodGold mining that destroys ecosystems & abuses #HumanRights

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/LeopoldoLopezG/status/1644753892255621123

https://archive.org/details/africanguyanese

Themes in African-Guyanese History by Winston F. McGowan; James G. Rose; David A. Granger; Alvin O. Thompson; Brian L. Moore; Carl A. Braithwaite; Kimani S. Nehusi; Hazel M. Woolford; Clive Y. Thomas

Topics
#Guyana, #Essequibo, #Berbice, #britishcolonialism, #dutchcolonialism, #history, #Demerara, #Demerary, #BritishGuiana, #DemeraraEssequibo, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #colonialism, #Caribbean, #LatinAmerica, #slavetrade, #slaverevolts

“This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of the African-Guyanese people from the time of their arrival in what were then the Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Berbice in the first half of the seventeenth century, to the present day. Most African-Guyanese today are descendants of enslaved Africans who were victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade – the forced migration of millions of Africans, largely from West Africa to the Americas, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.”