Venezuela’s army has said it is in a “state of alert” after the government warned of a suspected plot to blame Caracas for an attack on oil giant ExxonMobil in neighbouring Guyana.

Diplomatic teams from Venezuela and Guyana are to discuss Thursday in Brazil the dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo area in control of the latter since the 1890s. Venezuela claims the Essequibo ...

Venezuela warned on Saturday of an alleged “false flag operation” to “attack” a platform belonging to the United States oil company ExxonMobil, which is producing crude oil with Guyana’s ...

and Erik Prince—founder of the private military firm Blackwater—of conspiring to launch a military operation against Venezuela. Rodríguez claimed the “false flag” plot would begin with an ...