A Cold War Era Dispute Between Venezuela and Guyana Complicates U.S. Relations – Canada Boosts
It was the depths of the Chilly Battle within the Nineteen Sixties, and Caracas was on edge. Marxist guerrillas in Venezuela had been getting weapons and coaching from Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Alongside Venezuela’s japanese border, anticolonial leaders in what was then British Guiana had been agitating for independence. Alarmed {that a} Guyanese chief might create…