No Man’s Land: How Drug Trafficking Took Root in the Disputed Essequibo Territory

No Man’s Land: How Drug Trafficking Took Root in the Disputed Essequibo Territory

No Man’s Land: How Drug Trafficking Took Root in the Disputed Essequibo Territory When soldiers and anti-drug officials dug up 4.4 tons of cocaine at an illegal airstrip in northwest Guyana on August 31, 2024, they uncovered more than just drugs. They found evidence that Guyana’s remote Essequibo region had become a far more significant cocaine transit area than previously imagined.*This article is part of a three-part investigation, “Is Venezue…