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What are Venezuela's territorial claims against Guyana due to?<end_of_turn>
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The Spanish Empire founded the Captaincy General of Venezuela including the currently disputed territory of Guayana Esequiba, which Venezuela was left with after its war of independence. Shortly after this, the British Empire colonized Guyana, trading it with the Netherlands in an agreement that it did not define its western border, after which the British claimed the territory in 1840 and invaded it in 1841, claiming even more territory in 1886.

The United States denounced under the Monroe Doctrine that the border had expanded in a "mysterious manner," and suggested resolving the conflict in international arbitration. Both countries set their limits in a previous award from 1899 signed in Paris, where Guyana's ownership of the territory was dictated. However, in 1949 a memorandum by American lawyer Severo Mallet-Prevost, who was part of the defense, was revealed. of Venezuela in the Paris Arbitration Award, in which it denounced that the judges had not been impartial, since everything was arranged to favor Guyana.

After that, Venezuela signed the Geneva Agreement in 1966 with the United Kingdom before the independence of Guyana, which occurred that same year, which established bases for a negotiated solution to the territorial dispute and where the Award was unknown. Under this argument, Venezuela claims its sovereignty over the Essequibo. Guyana, for its part, argues that Venezuela renounced the territory after the Paris Award.

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