Venezuela Takes Essequibo Territorial Claim to International Court of Justice

Potential displacement of populations and regional instability if territorial claims are contested or upheld, affecting thousands in the disputed Essequibo region.

Before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Venezuela has carried a century-old wound into the world's most formal arena of resolution, asking judges to determine where one nation ends and another begins in the resource-rich Essequibo region. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez's appearance before the court signals that Caracas has chosen the weight of international law over the quieter path of bilateral diplomacy. The case touches something older than oil reserves or treaty language — the enduring human question of how borders drawn by colonial hands should be judged by the world that

Venezuela Takes Essequibo Territorial Claim to International Court of Justice

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