More troops near Guyana

Despite having pledged to tamp down tensions with Guyana, the Venezuelan regime is increasing its military presence at its border with that country, while raising the volume of its saber-rattling against the neighbouring nation amid the poor showings at the polls of ruler Nicolás Maduro ahead of July's presidential election.

- ANTONIO MARIA DELGADO

Satellite photos evaluated by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, showed this week that Venezuela now has "substantial quantities of personnel and equipment in sites near the disputed border," particularly near the expanding military base at the border island of Anacoco.