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World Politics and Elections 2023

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dubsartur:
Wikipedia has what seems like a good article on the dispute between Guayana and Venuzuela about the Esequiba or Essequeba region.  When Guiana became independent in 1966, the UK, Guiana, and Venuzuela signed a treaty that they should really settle who owned this territory someday.  Nobody ever seems to have asked the indigenous people.  The excuse for the current crisis is that Guyana sold Exxon rights to drill for offshore oil.  I don't know anywhere with an article which is less prone to vandalism by nationalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayana_Esequiba

Jubal:
Yeah, Wikipedia's "it should sound neutral" is a really awkward way to try and produce neutrality but I'm not sure that the result is always vastly worse than a lot of actual newsrooms come up with and Wiki often provides more detail. Which is probably more a comment on how bad everything else is, but it's grimly interesting in any case.

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