Venezuela claims at ICJ Guyana’s Essequibo was taken in “colonial fraud”

Professor Makane Mbengue told the Court that the arbitral process in Paris was nothing more than “the weaponisation of the nascent machinery of international arbitration”. He argued that the award was “the poisoned fruit of a poisoned tree”, imposed under imperial coercion. “Whether dispossession is achieved by direct Governmental decree, as in Chagos, or through […]