Guyana

A disputed election. Racialized parties. A constitutional crisis. Washington already has a model for what could go wrong.

The country’s simmering ethnic tensions threaten to undermine a fragile democratic system and bring on the resource curse before the proceeds from massive offshore oil discoveries arrive.

Here’s how the country can avoid the resource curse.

Guyana just discovered it owns enough oil to solve all its problems — and cause even bigger ones.

Why a tiny South American country can't escape the ugly legacies of its idiosyncratic past.

A new oil field near Venezuela could be the miracle Maduro was waiting for. There's just one problem — it's in territory claimed by Guyana.