Venezuela rejects UN ruling to refrain from holding election in disputed region

Neighboring Guyana has also laid claim to the mineral rich Essequibo, and Venezuela plans to elect officials to govern itVenezuela’s government has said it “categorically” rejected a ruling from the U N’s top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee a resource-rich region in neighboring Guyana that both countries claim as their own.The government of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, in a statement underscored its historical position to not recognize the jurisdiction of the international court of justice and asserted that international law does not allow the body to “interfere” or “attempt to prohibit” an election. Continue reading...

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