Saberrattling and high stakes in Guyana's geopolitical ...
· In October 1966, just five months after Guyana won independence from the United Kingdom, Venezuela deployed troops to seize and occupy the Guyanese portion of the island of Ankoko, situated on the littoral border between the two countries. The Venezuelan troops are still there, occupying the sevensquarekilometer island at the confluence of the Cuyuni and .